Re: Installing Fink on Catalina

On 7/30/21 7:49 AM, Scott Hannahs via Fink-users wrote:
>> On Jul 30, 2021, at 08:15, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 7/28/21 11:44 AM, Scott Hannahs via Fink-users wrote:
>>> The install program checks for the receipts for the command line tools under Catalina before installing Fink.  It does this by checking the receipt for the command line tools installation.
>>> However the Command Line Tools 12.4 installer attempts to put the receipt in /System/Library/Receipts.  This folder is not writeable (except in recovery mode) and thus no receipt is installed.
>>> Xcode correctly puts the receipt in /private/var/db/com.apple.pkg.Xcode.plist.  However the CLT installer does not do this.
>>> Thus the quick installer fails as well as the actual bootstrap routines. I am not sure how to resolve this, but how does one install Fink under Catalina?
>>
>> I just tested a freshly installed CLT-12.4 on an existing Fink install on Catalina, and it was able to find the CLT (fink list xcode). I also tried to bootstrap a fresh install from the 0.45.2 tarball with CLT-12.4, and the script was able to find and detect the 12.4 install.
>>
>> Hanspeter
> 
> Hanspeter,
> 
> I did the same thing except it was the 0.45-3 tarball.  My guess is that you upgraded to Catalina via a previous OS with Xcode CLT installed.  This keeps the correct file
> "com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables” in /System/Library/Receipts, and thus the pkgutil command "pkgutil --pkg-info com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables” succeeds.  However it is using the older package and if you run that pkgutil command it will tell you that you have 11.3 installed(?)
> 
> If you do a clean install of MacOS (or have a new machine as I do), the receipt is NOT created when CLT 12.4 is installed and the bootstrap fails.
> 
> Look at the file dates for
> % ls -l /System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLT*

[Catalina:~] nieder $ ls -l /System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLT*
zsh: no matches found: /System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLT*

I do have other bom & plist files in there. I tried to create a file in 
there, but it's not permitted, so SIP is working. The CLT receipts are 
in /Library/Apple/System/Library/Receipts, and they're all dated July 30.

My Catalina install is a VirtualBox VM (Mojave host) that was a clean 
Catalina install (never an earlier OS). On my Mojave machine 
(10.11->10.13->10.14), the CLT receipts are in /System/Library/Receipts.

Hanspeter



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