Start with the "move away" problem. It's in the FAQ:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#cvs-busy
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Alexander K. Hansen
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Julian F.Woods wrote:
> I attempted the fink selfupdate process which, after a few false
> starts, seemed to work at downloading all the files etc. However, after
> completing the download process it told me that the installation had
> failed for some reason and that I should do the following
>
> fink selfupdate-cvs
> then fink scanpackages
> then apt-get update
>
> The following is a snippet of what happened:
>
> ...................... etc.etc. (a lot of similar stuff above about
> 'moving away')
> C dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/xfce-3.8.18-2.info
> cvs update: move away
> dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/xfce-taskbar-3.8.18-1.info; it is
> in the way
> C dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/xfce-taskbar-3.8.18-1.info
> ### execution of su failed, exit code 1
> Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.
>
> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% fink scanpackages
> sudo /sw/bin/fink scanpackages
> Reading package info...
> Information about 954 packages read in 10 seconds.
>
> mkdir -p dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc
> dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc override |
> gzip >dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
> Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
> mkdir -p dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc
> dpkg-scanpackages dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc override |
> gzip >dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
> Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
> mkdir -p dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc
> dpkg-scanpackages dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc override |
> gzip >dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
> Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
> mkdir -p dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc
> dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc override
> | gzip >dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
> Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% apt-get update
> E: Could not open lock file /sw/var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13
> Permission denied)
> E: Unable to lock the list directory
> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods%
>
>
> As a result of this failure, I thought I'd check the Fink FAQ at
> Sourceforge about why the selfupdate process didn't work (Q 3.14) and
> decided to try the reset of CVS directories with the command:
>
> sudo find /sw/fink -type d -name 'CVS' -exec rm -rf {} \;
>
> and then tried to selfupdate again.
>
> This seemed to work until I got the following:
>
> etc.........
> d command 9)
> make: *** [libbz2.dylib] Error 1
> ### execution of make failed, exit code 2
> Failed: compiling bzip2-1.0.2-1 failed
> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods%
>
> So what can I do now? When I did a fink list command, the following are
> the packages it lists with an (i) or i next to them:
>
> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:/sw/fink] jfwoods% fink list
> Reading package info...
> Information about 954 packages read in 10 seconds.
>
> (i) apt 0.5.4-7 Advanced front-end for dpkg
> (i) audiofile 0.2.3-4 Audio File Library
> i base-files 1.6-1 Directory infrastructure
> (i) bzip2 1.0.2-1 Block-sorting file compressor
> (i) context 2001.11.13- Full-featured macro package written
> in TeX
> i darwin 6.3-1 [virtual package representing the
> kernel]
> (i) debianutils 1.16-1 Misc. utilities specific to Debian
> (and F...
> (i) dlcompat 20021117-1 Dynamic loading compatibility library
> (i) dpkg 1.9.20-4 The Debian package manager
> (i) dvipdfm 0.13.2c-7 Produce PDF files directly from DVI
> files
> (i) esound 0.2.28-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon
> i fink 0.11.1-10 The Fink package manager
> (i) gettext 0.10.40-3 Message localization support
> (i) ghostscript-fon 6.0-3 Standard fonts for Ghostscript
> (i) ghostscript6 6.01-2 Interpreter for PostScript and PDF,
> v6.01...
> (i) gimp 1.2.3-10 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
> (i) glib 1.2.10-8 Common C routines used by Gtk+ and
> other ...
> (i) gnome-libs 1.4.2-1 Base libraries for GNOME
> (i) gtk+ 1.2.10-13 The Gimp Toolkit
> (i) gzip 1.2.4a-6 The gzip file compressor
> (i) hyperref 6.72-2 Hypertext marks (clickable links) in
> LaTeX
> (i) imlib 1.9.10-9 General image handling library for
> X11 an...
> (i) latex2html 2002-4 Converts LaTeX documents to HTML
> (i) libiconv 1.7-5 Character set conversion library
> (i) libjpeg 6b-5 JPEG image format handling library
> (i) libpng 1.0.12-6 PNG image format handling library
> (i) libtiff 3.5.7-7 TIFF image format library and tools
> (i) libungif 4.1.0final- GIF image format handling library,
> LZW-fr...
> (i) libwww 5.3.2-4 General-purpose Web API written in C
> for ...
> i macosx 10.2.3-1 [virtual package representing the
> system]
> (i) ncurses 5.2-8 Full-screen ascii drawing library
> (i) netpbm 9.25-1 Graphics manipulation programs and
> libraries
> (i) orbit 0.5.17-2 The CORBA ORB used in GNOME
> (i) passwd 20020329-2 User and group entries for daemons
> (i) pdftex 20010417-10 Generate PDF from TeX directly
> (i) system-xfree86 4.2-5 Placeholder package for manually
> installe...
> (i) tar 1.13.25-1 GNU tar - tape archiver
> i tetex 20010808-1 TeX bundle compatible with TeXShop
> (i) tetex-base 1.0-13 TeTeX is an implementation of TeX
> for UNIX
> (i) tetex-macosx 20010808-7 Mac OS X-specific modifications to
> teTeX
> (i) tetex-texmf 1.0.2-6 Main texmf tree for a teTeX
> installation
> (i) texinfo 4.2-2 Texinfo documentation system
> (i) windowmaker 0.80.1-2 GNUstep (NeXT-like) Window Manager
> i zlib
>
> Note that it does list bzip2 - so does this mean it is installed (even
> though it failed)? And where does this leave me now?
>
>
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