In attempting to install pkgin/pkgsrc (NetBSD-based package managment tools), using the saveosx.org instructions and github repository.
The repository has installation instructions, which I followed, up to the point of a specific but uninformative error:
It looks like there was an issue running: sudo /usr/pkg/bin/pkgin -y update
I tried running this file directly, but my terminal reports a segmentation fault.
I'm running OSX 10.7.5 and have Xcode-Command-Line Tools installed, but I find no information about Darwin version compatibility on NetBSD's site. My searches have revealed no one else reporting issues using pkgin.
Version 5.0+ is supported according to www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/platforms.html#darwin, which according to wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29#Release_history) corresponds to OSX 10.1.1+
What options do I have besides upgrading my operating system and hoping the problem is fixing by having newer libraries or a newer kernel?
For reference:
It would appear that the pkgin binary currently supplied by saveosx is compiled only for more recent OSX releases. It needs at least a Darwin-14.x kernel, or newer, so it won't even run on 10.9.5. Unfortunately the script fails to check the OSX version before it blindly tries to run the pkgin binary, causing the program to crash.
saveosx is basically a painfully obnoxious, rather ugly, and poorly implemented. set of scripts that are superfluous to actually using pkgsrc on OSX.
I would strongly recommend avoiding saveosx for the time being.
Instead I would recommend trying the following well supported alternative:
A 32-bit Snow Leopard version that runs on 10.6.8 and newer is available, and I just checked the distribution directory and I see some 2015Q1 i386 packages are just now available, still supporting 10.6.8:
2015Q1 32-bit (i386) Snow Leopard and newer pkgsrc bootstrap
You can of course also build your own pkgsrc bootstrap for any specific OSX environment: