Re: [EXT] Upgrading to Ventura

Uwe Brauer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>> "JB" == Jacques Bloch <[email protected]> writes:

> This right as far as I have understood, except that you will not
> overwrite the existing fink installation, but it asks you to make a
> new install in another directory. Then you will end up with two
> installations I guess… the old one (which still works but can not be
> updated) and a new fully working one.

Thanks, but then I have to change the  path, so that the command
fink uses the freshly installed?

And then finally I can/should delete the old one?


>> On 22. Sep 2023, at 17:15, Uwe Brauer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 22 Sep 2023, at 4:32 pm, Jacques Bloch <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Sorry, typo, in Fink this is still called ‘master’.
>> 
>>> Those are instructions for building a new installation from scratch though,
>>> as you noted you can try this in /opt/sw2 .
>>> For updating an existing installation I’d rather try the usual path running
>>> `fink self update`, but I have no idea if this will give you a working fink and
>>> dpkg, as the above is not released yet.
>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Derek
>> 
>> Hi, I am still on, Catalina (sigh) and thought it is time to upgrade to
>> 13.6 before apple releases another version for which Fink will then be
>> adapted.
>> 
>> So:
>> 
>> 1. I update to 13.6 and then
>> 
>> 2. 
>> git clone https://github.com/fink/fink
>> cd fink
>> git checkout master
>> 
>> Then over the already existing fink installation I run 
>> fink selfupdate
>> ./bootstrap
>> 
>> Is that right?
>> 
>> Uwe Brauer 
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