On Sunday, Sep 22, 2002, at 00:42 US/Pacific, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Did you already have a /sw/fink/10.1 directory before? Or does root
> not have write and execute privileges in /sw/fink? This can only be
> answered by looking ("ls -la") at your /sw/fink directory.
Thanks for your reply. I've tried this sequence many times, so I'm not
sure what was there when I started, but this is what I have now:
% ls -la /sw/fink
total 88
drwxr-xr-x 17 ldavis unknown 578 Sep 21 19:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 2011 unknown 612 Sep 20 23:17 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ldavis unknown 6148 Sep 21 19:41 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 ldavis unknown 24 Sep 21 00:25 .cvsignore
drwxr-xr-x 7 ldavis unknown 238 Sep 2 20:04 10.1
drwxr-xr-x 6 ldavis unknown 204 Sep 21 18:17 10.2
drwxr-xr-x 5 ldavis unknown 170 Sep 21 18:21 CVS
-rw-r--r-- 1 ldavis unknown 1252 Aug 20 16:06 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root unknown 1607 Apr 17 15:20 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root unknown 6 Apr 17 15:20 VERSION
drwxr-xr-x 159 root unknown 5406 Sep 21 20:25 debs
drwxr-xr-x 5 root unknown 170 Sep 20 23:17 dists
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ldavis unknown 4860 Aug 21 08:40 inject.pl
drwxr-xr-x 3 root unknown 102 Sep 20 23:08 old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root unknown 10021 Sep 21 20:26 override
-rw-r--r-- 1 ldavis unknown 0 Aug 20 16:06 stamp-cvs-live
-rw-r--r-- 1 root unknown 0 Apr 17 15:20 stamp-rel-0.4.0
After
% sudo chown -R root /sw/fink/10*
I again get at step 5,
cannot rename /sw/fink/dists to /sw/fink/10.2 at
/sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl line 120.
% ls -la /sw/fink
total 88
drwxr-xr-x 17 ldavis unknown 578 Sep 21 19:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 2011 unknown 612 Sep 20 23:17 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ldavis unknown 6148 Sep 21 19:41 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 ldavis unknown 24 Sep 21 00:25 .cvsignore
drwxr-xr-x 7 root unknown 238 Sep 2 20:04 10.1
drwxr-xr-x 6 root unknown 204 Sep 21 18:17 10.2
drwxr-xr-x 5 ldavis unknown 170 Sep 21 18:21 CVS
-rw-r--r-- 1 ldavis unknown 1252 Aug 20 16:06 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root unknown 1607 Apr 17 15:20 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root unknown 6 Apr 17 15:20 VERSION
drwxr-xr-x 161 root unknown 5474 Sep 22 07:16 debs
drwxr-xr-x 5 root unknown 170 Sep 20 23:17 dists
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ldavis unknown 4860 Aug 21 08:40 inject.pl
drwxr-xr-x 3 root unknown 102 Sep 20 23:08 old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root unknown 10021 Sep 22 07:17 override
-rw-r--r-- 1 ldavis unknown 0 Aug 20 16:06 stamp-cvs-live
-rw-r--r-- 1 root unknown 0 Apr 17 15:20 stamp-rel-0.4.0
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