I used 'fink selfupdate-cvs'. thanks for looking.

~kevin

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 04:17 PM, Kow K wrote:

Just for sure, did you update with "fink selfupdate-cvs" rather than "fink selfupdate"? They are different.

Kow

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 12:51 PM, kevin lahoda wrote:

I deleted /sw/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0010 and tried to update again.

this time I received the same error but this time on /sw/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0011:

Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/guile-shlibs_1.4-6_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/guile_1.4-6_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/guile-dev_1.4-6_darwin-powerpc.deb
dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0011' near line 1:
field name `H��<��|}������xcxHѓ}' must be followed by colon
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2
Failed: can't batch-install packages: /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/guile-shlibs_1.4-6_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/guile_1.4-6_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/guile-dev_1.4-6_darwin-powerpc.deb

thanks.

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 03:15 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

Maybe try deleting /sw/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0010 and trying the update
again. If it doesn't work, post back (on the list, so that we can
maximize the available brainpower looking at this).

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 15:01, kevin lahoda wrote:
This is the contents of /sw/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0010 :
<snip>
N�
�|^H^C�N�
</snip>

thanks. it's keeping me from updating any packages.

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 12:59 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

What does "head /sw/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0010" return? (so we can see
the first few lines)

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 11:32, kevin lahoda wrote:
Just Updated to Fink Distribution version: 0.5.0a.cvs using
selfupdate.
Now I am trying to update the rest of my installed packages and am
getting the following error with dpkg:

List of packages to be installed.....

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
dpkg -i
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/guile-
shlibs_1.4-6_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/guile_1.4-
6_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/guile-
dev_1.4-6_darwin-powerpc.deb
dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0010' near line
1:
field name `N¡Z' must be followed by colon
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2
Failed: can't batch-install packages:
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/guile-
shlibs_1.4-6_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/guile_1.4-
6_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/guile-
dev_1.4-6_darwin-powerpc.deb

I have no idea what to do next and can't seem to find anything on
archive.

thanks.

~kevin
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