My guess is that an info file got modified, and fink is unwilling to delete it. Check in the "many lines cut" for messages wanting you to move a package out of the way.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jean-Pierre Gattuso wrote: > Hi: > > I run fink on 10.2 and have followed the instructions for Jaguar. I > run into an error when I try to update the list of packages (see the > output below). I am 100% sure that I provide the right su password > (it work fine with the commande "fink selfupdate"). Can someone help? > > Thanks > jp > > ########## > [gattuso:~] gattuso% fink selfupdate-cvs > sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate-cvs > > I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package > descriptions. > The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the > user 'gattuso'. > After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you > should then > update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. > > su gattuso -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P' > ? stamp-rel-0.3.2a > ? 10.1/stable/crypto/finkinfo/curl-ssl-7.9.2-1.info > > MANY LINES CUT > > cvs server: Updating 10.2/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm > ### execution of su failed, exit code 1 > Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. > [gattuso:~] gattuso% > ############### > -- > Jean-Pierre Gattuso | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/~gattuso > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
