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Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem

James Howse
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:04:55 -0800

Suddenly this morning without any action on my part, fink selfupdate
works again.  Are you aware of any changes made at the fink end?
James

> Alexander,
> When I run the command
> rsync -az -v 
> rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP
> /opt/fink/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
> from the command line it fails with the same error message.
> rsync: failed to connect to distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net: Connection
> refused (61)
> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at
> /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-35.2/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9]
>
> I also considered the possibility that the latest Apple update to SSL
> had modified the system rsync and caused some problem, so I compiled
> rsync from source and tried that version.  It fails with the same error
> message.
> James
>
>   
>> What happens if you run the rsync command that Fink is using manually?
>> Does that work?
>>
>> On 2/3/10 11:48 AM, James Howse wrote:
>>     
>>> Alexander,
>>> I considered that possibility because I am behind various proxies and
>>> firewalls,  so I ran the following rsync command which tries to
>>> retrieve a copy of the rsync source code from samba.org.
>>>       
>>> rsync -av --exclude=.git/ rsync://rsync.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/rsync
>>> /dest/dir/
>>>       
>>> This works fine and successfully retrieves the rsync source code.  So
>>> apparently rsync in general is not blocked.  So what is special about
>>> fink's rsync site?
>>> James
>>>       
>>>> On 2/3/10 11:19 AM, James Howse wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Just this week I have started getting the following error when running
>>>>> fink selfupdate.  Any suggestions on what the problem might be?
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> James
>>>>> fink -v selfupdate
>>>>> rsync -az -v
>>>>> rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP
>>>>> /opt/fink/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
>>>>> rsync: failed to connect to distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net:
>>>>>           
>> Connection
>>     
>>>>> refused (61)
>>>>> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at
>>>>> /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-35.2/rsync/clientserver.c(105)
>>>>>           
>> [receiver=2.6.9]
>>     
>>>>> ### execution of rsync failed, exit code 10
>>>>> Failed to fetch the timestamp file from the rsync server:
>>>>> rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/.
>>>>> Check the error messages above.
>>>>>           
>>>>
>>>> Works here.  Maybe your network configuration changed and they've
>>>>         
>> locked
>>     
>>>> rsync out; that looks like the error one gets under such circumstances.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>
>>     
>
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