Re: any way around this?

> On Dec 4, 2021, at 10:00 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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

I found that the same error with 11.6.  I finally had to edit the Services.pm code to change the “die” command to a call to print and now it just prints it as a warning.

/opt/sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1346

-Scott

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