Re: Info on how best to upgrade from 10.15 to 11.x

On 11/18/22 11:22 AM, Edward R Kinney wrote:
> Due to some other compatibility issues, I may finally have to upgrade OSX
> from 10.15. Is there any info/doc on how to do this and preserve fink and
> its package functions as much as possible? If this is only possible using
> github, some simple how-to instructions would be very helpful and
> appreciated!

If your Fink install is in a subdirectory of /opt, then upgrading Fink 
before the system OS should be possible to do in place w/out having to 
start all over.

For sanity, save a copy of your installed packages list using this 
command (one line and change /sw as needed):
for i in `/bin/ls -1 /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list`; do basename -s .list 
$i >> ~/my_fink_packages.txt; done

After the system upgrade, if you had to reinstall Fink from scratch, the 
following command will go through your old package list and reinstall 
them (with the caveat that some packages may not be available for macOS11):
cat ~/my_fink_packages.txt | xargs fink reinstall

Note that some packages do not exist on macOS11, so you might need to 
hand edit the file my_fink_packages.txt to remove the missing packages 
before trying to reinstall


0) Update an existing Fink before upgrading macOS. If deleting Fink and 
reinstalling from scratch, it's OK to upgrade macOS, then install the 
new Fink.

1) Get the latest version of Fink from git:
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone https://github.com/TheSin-/fink fink-thesin
cd fink-thesin
git checkout dpkg1.16

2a) if you're doing an upgrade to a Fink already in /opt:
cd ~/src/fink-thesin
./inject.pl

OR

2b) if starting from scratch:
cd ~/src/fink-thesin
./bootstrap

3) install your old packages using the above command:
cat ~/my_fink_packages.txt | xargs fink reinstall

Hanspeter

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