On 05/31/2016 11:10 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> On May 31, 2016, at 10:29, Jess H. Brewer <j...@triumf.ca> wrote: >> >> On 05/31/2016 08:47 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> One question on the login method: is that a terminal logged in to a >>>>> root account, or accessed via “sudo -s” or “su”, etc. ? >>>>> >>>>> —akh >>>> >>>> # su - >>>> >>>> (When I'm root, I want to stay root. :-) >>>> >>>> -- Jess >>> >>> I don’t know if it will make a difference, but you might try setting >>> >>> RootMethod: none >>> >>> in /sw/etc/fink.conf if you haven’t done that already.—akh >> >> It was already set. Shall I try something different? >> >> I seem to be able to "chip away" at updating from source: although just >> running # fink update-all fails after a few packages, it does update a >> few -- less each time I run it -- until it fails immediately; then I >> "manually" update a few from the list and try again. Then update-all >> gets a few more.... I've done this before; eventually I get up to date >> (or almost so) and then I seem to be able to go back to normal. I >> wonder if the failure on downloading binaries is due to some specific >> package needing updating? >> >> Cheers — Jess >> > > I’m honestly not sure. What’s failing to download isn’t a particular > package, though, but an index for all of the packages. > > Is it possible that you are happening upon updates which _aren’t_ in the > binary distribution due to new versions/revisions, and therefore are being > built from source? > > —akh
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