Re: upgrade from 10.15-->11.00 will fink stop?

On 11/27/23 3:47 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> A couple of weeks ago I asked whether I can install fink in MacOS >=11
> and the answer was yes.
> 
> What is not clear to me is this.
> 
> If I decide, finally to upgrade from 10.15 say to 11.X or even 12.X
> will then my fink installation stop?

If you upgrade Fink first to the latest git code (see instructions on 
homepage for fetching it and then running `./inject.pl`), and you then 
update Fink to 11.x or 12.x, then Fink should continue running (might 
need to reinstall any passwd-* users).

If your Fink is in /sw, then updating to 11.x or higher will cause 
problems because macOS stopped allowing outside stuff writing directly 
to /. If your Fink is in /opt/sw (or else whwere inside /opt), updating 
macOS will be OK.

> Moreover I installed oxfuse, using fink, to access certain encrypted folders.
 >
> Will this then also stop working and I need to reinstall fink and
> recompile oxfuse?
> 
> Since oxfuse is very dear to me and it compilation and installation was
> a bit a of a headache I am still hesitating to upgrade to 11+

I've never used osxfuse, but I would be afraid of our v2.7 copy working 
above 10.15. It uses kernel extensions which have been disallowed in 
more recent macOS releases. Have you tried the official macFUSE 
installer? https://osxfuse.github.io/ (again, no idea how the current 
release works compared to our old release)

Hanspeter

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