For folks who aren't behind firewalls, the best recommendation is to use fink selfupdate-rsync since that is currently functional. If you are behind a firewall, the best short-term workaround is probably to ask for specific updated package description files by contacting the maintainer directly.

The mailing lists and bug tracker are also down, so as an interim solution please file bug reports for unmaintained packages (only) as comments to the Finkers entry. For maintained packages, send reports to the maintainer. ‎

Addendum: 2012-12-12: Anonymous CVS is working again.

For folks who aren't behind firewalls, the best recommendation is to use fink selfupdate-rsync since that is currently functional. If you're behind a firewall, the best short-term workaround is probably to ask for specific updated package description files on the mailing lists or by contacting the maintainer directly.

Addendum: 2012-12-07: Anonymous CVS is working again.

fink list xcode

to verify that you have the Xcode 4.4 command-line tools installed, and that Fink knows where your Xcode.app is. If the CLI tools are missing or not for Xcode 4.4, reinstall them, e.g. via the Xcode Preferences. If fink isn't finding your Xcode.app, use

sudo xcode-select -switch /path/to/Xcode.app

to make sure that your system's tools are pointing to the right place. Also run

sudo xcodebuild -license

to make sure that the Xcode license is accepted globally on your system, especially for fink's build user.

Once you have updated the OS, use

fink reinstall fink

to point it to the 10.8 distribution, and run

fink install perl5123-core

to make sure any Perl modules you have from Lion will still work.

If you updated the OS first, and have an earlier version of fink which doesn't know about Mountain Lion, you have probably found that it doesn't work. To work around this issue, do the following: (1) download an updated copy of Services.pm, (2) move the downloaded file into /sw/lib/perl5/Fink, such as via

sudo mv /path/to/Services.pm /sw/lib/perl5/Fink

; (change /sw and /path/to to match your particular setup); (3) run

fink selfupdate

, which should download and install fink-0.34.0; (4) use

fink reinstall fink

to ensure that fink is pointing at the 10.8 distribution, and (5) install perl5123-core as above.

Addendum, 2012-07-26: It appears that the OS update wipes out the users that Fink creates (but not the groups). After following the steps above, you should (1) Run

fink configure

to set the Fink build user back up, and (2) use

fink list -it passwd | cut -f2 | xargs fink reinstall

to reinstall the various passwd* packages and their users.

Until Mountain Lion is available to the general public, we ask that users submit bug reports to the Fink Seed List, which has been set up in such a manner as to to avoid violating the NDA.

Starting with this version of fink, packages will be built as an unprivileged user by default, which prevents the build process from installing files in the rest of the filesystem. (Prior to fink-0.33.0 we relied on maintainers to test their packages using this method). Users may find that some packages don't build in this mode, so we appreciate feedback, as always, to help us find and correct problems.

In addition, we have added some additional options for maintainers in this Fink version. /sw/Library/Python has been added to the list of valid directories in a package, to provide a unified location to install modules built against a built-in Python. There is now an xcode.app virtual package for packages that use xcodebuild to BuildDepend upon. Its version is the version of Xcode.app. The xcode virtual package has always been based on the presence of the command-line tools, and now its version is the version of those. Note that xcode and xcode.app are the same for Xcodes prior to 4.3.

After installing Xcode 4.3.x, users should: (1) Select the Components pane from Xcode->Preferences->Downloads and install the Command Line Tools, or install them via the separate installer from connect.apple.com, and (2) run

sudo xcode-select -switch /path/to/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

(replacing /path/to with the actual path to the Xcode app) to make sure that everything is pointed in the right place.

fink-0.32.4.1 also enhances the checksumming operation under fink fetch.