You should be safe in removing the fink.old directory.
It's created the first time you run fink selfupdate-cvs just in case
something goes wrong during the update. Once you've verified that fink
works after the selfupdate-cvs you can delete the whole fink.old.
Cheers
Stefano
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> Maybe not: I seem to remember having a problem with some operation (but I
> don't remember for sure which one) when I didn't have a fink.old folder. It
> wasn't selfupdate, though: I just tried that after renaming my fink.old.
> It's probably easy enough to create one if you have a problem ('sudo cp
> /sw/fink/ /sw/fink.old/').
>
> On Wednesday 24 July 2002 12:23, Brandon Potter wrote:
> > I'm running a recent version of fink and noticed that I have a fink.old
> > folder in /sw
> > Is it okay to delete the directory and its contents?
> > Thanks,
> > Brandon Potter
> >
> >
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