HI there,

I am running 10.6.8
and fink update is failing.  any clues what I can do here?

$ sudo fink -q -y update-all
Password:
Scanning package description files
not a reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1836
MacBookPro-002332D9A480-2 11:22:20 ~/bin $ sudo fink -q -y selfupdate
rsync -az -q
rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP
/sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest package
descriptions.
rsync -rtz --delete-after --delete -q   --include='10.4/'
--include='10.4/stable/' --include='10.4/stable/main/'
--include='10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/'
--include='10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/*/'
--include='10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/*'
--include='10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/**/*' --include='10.4/'
--include='10.4/stable/' --include='10.4/stable/crypto/'
--include='10.4/stable/crypto/finkinfo/'
--include='10.4/stable/crypto/finkinfo/*/'
--include='10.4/stable/crypto/finkinfo/*'
--include='10.4/stable/crypto/finkinfo/**/*' --include='VERSION'
--include='DISTRIBUTION' --include='README' --exclude='**'
'rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo' '/sw/fink/'
Scanning package description files
Failed: not a reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1836
MacBookPro-002332D9A480-2 11:22:20 ~/bin $

MacBookPro-002332D9A480-2 11:23:12 ~/bin $ sudo fink --version
Package manager version: 0.32.6
Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Sat Aug 11 11:23:11 2012, 10.6, i386
Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto local/injected

Copyright (c) 2001 Christoph Pfisterer
Copyright (c) 2001-2012 The Fink Package Manager Team
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

MacBookPro-002332D9A480-2 11:22:59 ~ $ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 12 subversion 4) configuration:

   Platform:
     osname=darwin, osvers=10.8.0, archname=darwin-thread-multi-2level
     uname='darwin beta.macosforge.org 10.8.0 darwin kernel version
10.8.0: tue jun 7 16:33:36 pdt 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1release_i386 i386 '
     config_args='-D inc_version_list=5.12.3/darwin-thread-multi-2level
5.12.3 5.12.2/darwin-thread-multi-2level 5.12.2
5.12.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level 5.12.1
5.12.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level 5.12.0 -des -Dprefix=/opt/local
-Dscriptdir=/opt/local/bin -Dcppflags=-I/opt/local/include
-Dccflags=-pipe -O2  -Dldflags=-L/opt/local/lib
-Dvendorprefix=/opt/local -Dusemultiplicity=y -Dusethreads -Duseshrplib
-D cc=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -D ld=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -D man1ext=1pm -D
man3ext=3pm -D man1dir=/opt/local/share/man/man1p -D
man3dir=/opt/local/share/man/man3p -D
sitebin=/opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin -D
siteman1dir=/opt/local/share/perl5.12/siteman/man1 -D
siteman3dir=/opt/local/share/perl5.12/siteman/man3 -D
vendorbin=/opt/local/libexec/perl5.12 -D
vendorman1dir=/opt/local/share/perl5.12/man/man1 -D
vendorman3dir=/opt/local/share/perl5.12/man/man3 -D pager=/usr/bin/less
-sR -D perlpath=/opt/local/bin/perl5.12 -D
startperl=#!/opt/local/bin/perl5.12'
     hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
     useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
     useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
     use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
     usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
   Compiler:
     cc='/usr/bin/gcc-4.2', ccflags ='-pipe -O2  -fno-common
-DPERL_DARWIN -I/opt/local/include -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing
-fstack-protector -I/opt/local/include',
     optimize='-O3',
     cppflags='-I/opt/local/include -no-cpp-precomp -pipe -O2
-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -I/opt/local/include -no-cpp-precomp
-fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector -I/opt/local/include'
     ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)',
gccosandvers=''
     intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
     d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
     ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
     alignbytes=8, prototype=define
   Linker and Libraries:
     ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 /usr/bin/gcc-4.2', ldflags
='-L/opt/local/lib  -fstack-protector'
     libpth=/opt/local/lib /usr/lib
     libs=-lgdbm -ldbm -ldl -lm -lutil -lc
     perllibs=-ldl -lm -lutil -lc
     libc=, so=dylib, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.dylib
     gnulibc_version=''
   Dynamic Linking:
     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
     cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-L/opt/local/lib  -bundle -undefined
dynamic_lookup -fstack-protector'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
   Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                         PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
USE_64_BIT_ALL
                         USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
                         USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API
   Built under darwin
   Compiled at Jun 25 2012 23:37:34
   @INC:
     /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/darwin-thread-multi-2level
     /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4
     /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.4/darwin-thread-multi-2level
     /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.4
     /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4/darwin-thread-multi-2level
     /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4
     /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3
     /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
     /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.3
     /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
     .

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