Re: any way around this?

On 11/10/21 6:42 PM, James Coyle via Fink-users wrote:
> I haven’t had any luck with either of these.
> 
> I ran this command:  amesCoyleiMac:fink-0.45.3 jimcoyle$ git pull https://github.com/fink/fink —rebase
> 
> Then I ran the ./inject.pl command with the current location of fink and got this result:
> 
> bin/chmod 644 /opt/sw/fink/dists/local/injected/finkinfo/*.*
> Installing package...
> 
> Use of uninitialized value $packagerevision in concatenation (.) or string at /Users/jimcoyle/Desktop/fink-0.45.3/perlmod/Fink/Bootstrap.pm line 362.
> /opt/sw/bin/fink install fink--
> 12.0 does not match the expected value of . Please run `fink selfupdate` to download a newer version of fink
> Scanning package description files..........
> No version number for package fink in
> 
> I thought perhaps the command had injected the consistency check, so again I ran fink selfupdate with this result:
> 
> fink selfupdate
> 12.0 does not match the expected value of . Please run `fink selfupdate` to download a newer version of fink
> /usr/bin/rsync -az -q  rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /opt/sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
> I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest package descriptions.
> /usr/bin/rsync -rtz --delete-after --delete -q   --include='10.9-libcxx/' --include='10.9-libcxx/stable/' --include='10.9-libcxx/stable/main/' --include='10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/' --include='10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/*/' --include='10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/*' --include='10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/**/*' --include='VERSION' --include='DISTRIBUTION' --include='README' --exclude='**' 'rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo' '/opt/sw/fink/'
> Scanning package description files..........
> Information about 11793 packages read in 1 seconds.
> WARNING! This version of Perl (5.030003) is not currently supported by Fink.
> Updating anyway, but you may encounter problems.
> Can't resolve dependency "system-perl5302" for package "texinfo-6.8-501" (no
> matching packages/versions found)
> Exiting with failure.
> 
> Is the Perl version the real culprit here or did I issue the commands incorrectly?  Again, I’m using Monterey, not Big Sur.
> 
> Thanks for any assistance


I don't see a resolution to this in my email records. Part of the 
missing system-perl530X problem was due to a bug in the dpkg1.16 branch 
that didn't properly update Fink when the macOS Distribution was increased.

Running from the fink-0.45.3 tarball or via 'fink selfupdate' won't help.

The current HEAD on that branch fixed it (and works with Monterey):

mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone https://github.com/TheSin-/fink fink-thesin
cd fink-thesin
git checkout dpkg1.16
./inject.pl

That will update your active version of Fink to one that works. Then 
this will copy the necessary update files for some base packages (2 lines):

mkdir -p /opt/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/base
cp ~/src/fink-thesin/10.9-libcxx/* 
/opt/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/base

Hanspeter


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