Are you running 10.1 or 10.2? If you're using 10.1 then you won't see much happen, as most of the updated versions are for 10.2 only.
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 21:31, The Server Surfer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've been having trouble updating my package descriptions via CVS. > Namely, although the selfupdate-cvs runs without any errors (see > output, below), it doesn't actually _do_ anything and my packages _are_ > out of date. At first, I just thought that fewer packages were being > updated, but I haven't seen anything at all for the last few months and > just the other day I noticed on the Fink home page that the current > version of xfree86 is 4.2.1.1, but mine is listed as 4.2.0.1 and I do > have the unstable/main and unstable/crypto branches opened up. > > So, any ideas what my problem is? I've been using this successfully > for months and months, and it just stopped working "for no reason." > FWIW, here's the output from CVS: > > 17:49:08surfer@vader~ 84% fink selfupdate-cvs > sudo /.sw/bin/fink selfupdate-cvs > Password: > > 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 > 'surfer'. > After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should > then > update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. > > su surfer -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P' > cvs server: Updating . > cvs server: Updating dists > cvs server: Updating dists/stable > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/crypto > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/base > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/database > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/devel > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/editors > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/games > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/graphics > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/kde > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/languages > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/libs > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/net > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/sci > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/shells > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/sound > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/text > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/utils > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/web > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/x11 > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/x11-system > cvs server: Updating dists/stable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/crypto > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/crypto/finkinfo > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/crypto/finkinfo/kde > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/base > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/database > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/devel > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/editors > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/games > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/kde > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/languages > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/net > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/shells > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sound > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/text > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/web > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11 > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-system > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm > Information about 1447 packages read in 3 seconds. > > pkg fink version ### > pkg fink version 0.11.0-1 > pkg base-files version ### > pkg base-files version 1.6-1 > pkg libiconv version ### > pkg libiconv version 1.7-5 > pkg ncurses version ### > pkg ncurses version 5.2-7 > pkg tar version ### > pkg tar version 1.13.25-1 > pkg gzip version ### > pkg gzip version 1.2.4a-6 > pkg gettext version ### > pkg gettext version 0.10.40-3 > pkg bzip2 version ### > pkg bzip2 version 1.0.2-1 > pkg debianutils version ### > pkg debianutils version 1.16-1 > pkg dpkg version ### > pkg dpkg version 1.9.20-3 > pkg apt version ### > pkg apt version 0.5.4-4 > pkg apt-shlibs version ### > pkg apt-shlibs version 0.5.4-4 > pkg storable-pm version ### > pkg storable-pm version 1.0.14-1 > No packages to install. > > The core packages have been updated. You should now update the other > packages > using commands like 'fink update-all'. > > 20:01:30surfer@vader~ 85% > > Love, > The Server Surfer > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (Darwin) > Comment: Public Key available at www.pgp.net > > iD8DBQE97rqT8dQTMJzilbMRAjbNAJ4l0NhVWb7n0Kq7I0iVjKbCIhHx+gCeKotj > d6X69XkSiLzpaiOe3cPv57s= > =gsJn > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET > comprehensive development tool, built to increase your > productivity. Try a free online hosted session at: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr0003en > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > -- Alexander K. 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