Re: Proposal to create a new distribution for 10.9-10.11

> On Jul 15, 2015, at 10:10, John Lillibridge <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.hansen <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Oh, and as a side benefit, in principle we could start this new distribution
>> on github.
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Thanks Alexander. I wanted to relate my initial experiences trying to bootstrap
> a 10.11version of Fink on El Capitan Public Beta, using the github trees:
> 
> 1) I ran into a phase 2 error using "TheCaptain" github branch, because I had
> specified searching for binary packages. Here are the error messages:
> 
> Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution.
> /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q update
> Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages
>  404 Not Found
> Ign http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Release
> Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/crypto Packages
>  404 Not Found
> Ign http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/crypto Release
> Failed to fetch http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.11/dists/stable/main/binary-
> darwin-x86_64/Packages  404 Not Found
> Failed to fetch http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.11/dists/stable/crypto/binary-
> darwin-x86_64/Packages  404 Not Found
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
> used instead.
> ### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100
> WARNING: Failure while updating indexes.
> 
> ERROR: Bootstrap phase 2 failed!
> 
> The solution is to NOT ask to check bindist during the initial fink
> configuration. Even after correcting that I ran into problems similar to those
> below, so I attempted the other branch.
> 
> 2) I tried making a bootstrap build with the "Captain-10.9-libc++" github branch.
> This time I got through phase 1 & 2, but was then unable to build any additional
> packages,nor even do a successful 'fink selfupdate'. The error message was:
> 
> Scanning package description files
> Failed: not a reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1887.
> 
> So not much success yet. Perhaps the next El Capitan Public Beta release will
> behave better, but I wanted you to be aware of these errors in the hope they
> can be fixed on the Fink side.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> 

captain-10.9-libc++ isn’t going to work because we haven’t populated the 10.9-libcxx distribution yet.  The way things are going for me right now, I don’t know if I’m ever going to have time to do that before El Capitan is released.  Somebody else needs to step up.

—Alexander


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