At 10:13 Uhr -0500 18.04.2002, Joel L. Breazeale wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I was doing 'fink selfupdate' then one day I tried 'fink selfupdate-cvs'
>based upon a recommendation. All this has worked fine up to now. When
>I do 'fink selfupdate-cvs' or 'fink selfupdate' I the typical massive
>output then the following error:
>
> [msp-65-29-22-81:~] root# fink selfupdate
>
> Your Fink installation is set up to update package descriptions
>directly from
> CVS. Do you want to use this setup and update now? [Y/n] Y
>
> I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions.
> After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then
> update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'.
>
> cvs -z3 update -d -P
> ? stamp-rel-0.3.2a
> ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/curl-ssl-7.9-1.info
> ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/curl-ssl-7.9.2-1.info
> ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/gnupg-1.0.6-7.info
> ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/gnupg-1.0.6-7.patch
> ...
> M dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/oroborus2-2.0.4-1.info
> M dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/sawfish-1.0.1-1.info
> ### cvs failed, exit code 1
> Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.
> [msp-65-29-22-81:~] root#
Your problem is that /sw/fink/dists is messed up, containing a mix of
the CVS version, the point release, and files manualy modified by
you. Unless there are modifications in there which you absolutly want
to keep, I recommend this procedure (requires you to have the
"findtools" package installed I think):
find /sw/fink/dists/ -name "*.info" -exec rm {} \;
find /sw/fink/dists/ -name "*.patch" -exec rm {} \;
rm /sw/fink/VERSION
fink selfupdate-cvs
Cheers,
Max
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