Re: [Fink-beginners] problem with selfupdate

2008-02-26 Thread Nick Hall
Doing a CVS update in Fink isn't anything too special--it's just updating a bunch of text documents from the remote server. Your sysadmin should be able to give you a hand in this case as long as no HTTP proxy is required. well, that just makes it all the more frustrating ! The size

Re: [Fink-beginners] problem with selfupdate

2008-02-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 04:21:05 am Nick Hall wrote: Doing a CVS update in Fink isn't anything too special--it's just updating a bunch of text documents from the remote server. Your sysadmin should be able to give you a hand in this case as long as no HTTP proxy is required. well,

Re: [Fink-beginners] problem with selfupdate

2008-02-26 Thread Lloyd Wood
At Tuesday 26/02/2008 10:21 +0100, Nick Hall wrote: Sourceforge's CVS access can be unreliable, so it's not impossible that you hit it during one of the periods where was under heavy load. I tried several times over the last two days always with the same result - and your machine is

Re: [Fink-beginners] problem with selfupdate

2008-02-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
Lloyd Wood wrote: snip my selfupdate cvs complains curl can't find fink-0.27.11.tar.gz at any mirror. Do I have to download and build 0.28.0 myself? (I'm guessing that fink doesn't update itself across minor revisions.) thanks, L. http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/[EMAIL

[Fink-beginners] Compile error, package xmltv586

2008-02-26 Thread Eskil Kvalnes
Hello, I'll just include the transcript because I don't really know what I'm seeing here: -- hypothetic:~ eskil$ fink install xmltv586 Information about 6471 packages read in 0 seconds. The following package will be installed or updated: xmltv586

Re: [Fink-beginners] problem with selfupdate

2008-02-26 Thread Lloyd Wood
At Tuesday 26/02/2008 09:15 -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote: Lloyd Wood wrote: my selfupdate cvs complains curl can't find fink-0.27.11.tar.gz at any mirror. Do I have to download and build 0.28.0 myself? (I'm guessing that fink doesn't update itself across minor revisions.) No, fink is indeed

[Fink-beginners] Problem with tk-tablematrix-pm586 wa Re: Compile error, package xmltv586

2008-02-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
Eskil Kvalnes wrote: Hello, I'll just include the transcript because I don't really know what I'm seeing here: -- hypothetic:~ eskil$ fink install xmltv586 Information about 6471 packages read in 0 seconds. The following package will be

Re: [Fink-beginners] problem with selfupdate

2008-02-26 Thread Nick Hall
failed that the connection wasn't actually happening. Can you please post the _complete_ results of an attempt to run fink selfupdate so that we can see what is going on here? Actually, do fink -vvv selfupdate to crank up the verbosity to make sure that nothing gets missed. OK here

Re: [Fink-beginners] problem with selfupdate

2008-02-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
Nick Hall wrote: failed that the connection wasn't actually happening. Can you please post the _complete_ results of an attempt to run fink selfupdate so that we can see what is going on here? Actually, do fink -vvv selfupdate to crank up the verbosity to make sure that nothing gets

Re: [Fink-beginners] problem with selfupdate

2008-02-26 Thread Nick Hall
(sorry, I just noticed that you sent this a version of this information earlier--but it's good to be up to date in any case) OK--this makes more sense to me. Everything that _you're_ doing is as it should be, so I'd have to conclude that the firewall isn't letting you have access.

[Fink-beginners] Still having problems with gnupg

2008-02-26 Thread Phillip R Smith
I have had this problem now for about 2 months. Ever other package updates OK, except gnupg. ...clip... ./tools/mk-tdata 9000 data-9000 ../tools/mk-tdata 32000 data-32000 ../tools/mk-tdata 8 data-8 cat ./../doc/HACKING \ ./../doc/DETAILS \ ./../doc/FAQ plain-large

Re: [Fink-beginners] Still having problems with gnupg

2008-02-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phillip R Smith wrote: | I have had this problem now for about 2 months. Ever other package | updates OK, except gnupg. | | ...clip... | ./tools/mk-tdata 9000 data-9000 | ../tools/mk-tdata 32000 data-32000 | ../tools/mk-tdata 8 data-8

[Fink-beginners] installing caca-0.9-1013 failed during Amarok install

2008-02-26 Thread Benjamin Kalish
Hey folks, I tried to install a package from the unstable tree for the first time today and I've run into a little trouble. When installing the package amarok I get, after a good deal of compiling, the message: Failed: phase installing: caca-0.9-1013 failed Before reporting any errors,

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing caca-0.9-1013 failed during Amarok install

2008-02-26 Thread TheSin
could you send the actual error please? --- TS http://southofheaven.org/ Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 26-Feb-08, at 7:35 PM, Benjamin Kalish wrote: Hey folks, I tried to install a package from the unstable tree for the first time today and I've run into a

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing caca-0.9-1013 failed during Amarok install

2008-02-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 09:35:56 pm Benjamin Kalish wrote: Hey folks, I tried to install a package from the unstable tree for the first time today and I've run into a little trouble. When installing the package amarok I get, after a good deal of compiling, the message: Failed: phase

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing caca-0.9-1013 failed during Amarok install

2008-02-26 Thread Benjamin Kalish
Hi Alexander, I thought the message seemed rather generic, but the entire output was huge. I wouldn't be surprised if it even filled the scroll back buffer on my terminal. Of course I could change the terminal window settings or log the output, but it would seem ridiculous to send so much to the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with tk-tablematrix-pm586 wa Re: Compile error, package xmltv586

2008-02-26 Thread Eskil Kvalnes
On Feb 26, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: Eskil Kvalnes wrote: Hello, I'll just include the transcript because I don't really know what I'm seeing here: -- hypothetic:~ eskil$ fink install xmltv586 Information about 6471 packages