Re: Fink 10.15 & read-only root

On 8/18/19 3:35 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> On 8/18/19 2:25 PM, John Lillibridge wrote:
>> Hello Fink Developers,
>>
>> I’m a long-time Fink user, and have been building/testing under 
>> 10.15b5. There have been a few workarounds that I’d be happy to share, 
>> but I finally succeeded in getting both gcc8 & gmt5 built. However, 
>> with 10.15 there is a fundamental shift compared to all previous OS-X 
>> versions: the root filesystem (/) is read-only and will NOT allow /sw 
>> to be created. My testing thus far has used ~/sw, which is less than 
>> ideal (e.g., no bindist). My question is: is it possible to get Apple 
>> to create a ‘firmlink’ so that /sw is read-write? Has anyone come up 
>> with a more clever solution? Hoping I can help further the cause with 
>> 10.15…
> 
> Interesting. I have 10.15b5 on a VM and currently have Fink installed in 
> /sw. The VM was a 10.14.4 setup (without Fink) that then got upgraded to 
> 10.15b2 (now b5) and then had Fink installed for the first time once 
> Catalina was running. So the / restrictions seem to vary. That's annoying.
> 
> Hanspeter

I just upgraded to the latest 10.15b (19A536g) and now I can't get 
anything installed into / (eg /sw2) and my existing install in /sw 
inherited from 10.14 no longer works (worked in earlier 10.15betas). 
However, I can bootstrap into /opt/sw.

I've created a github issue to track things that are going to affect 10.15

https://github.com/fink/fink/issues/196

Of the packages tested so far, gmp5 is failing tests, as are some other 
packages that depend on gmp5.

Hanspeter


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