Max,
Thanks! It worked (at least I'm past the problem point)!
--Joel
> 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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> Max Horn
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>
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