On Apr 5, 2005, at 6:01 AM, Holger Schulz wrote:
Am 04.04.2005 um 16:03 schrieb Alexander K. Hansen:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#cvs-busy
And why are you using CVS, anyway, instead of rsync?
Perhaps because it the preset method? _I_ never told fink to use cvs, it's the way it was shipped. Ask the authors.
And why isn't there an additional information in the error message like "Try selfupdate via rsync"?
With that information I could ran the rsync-update directly.
hs
Ummm....no.
Unless I've missed something in my various installations, Fink is _not_ set up when you first install it to update package descriptions in the source tree by either rsync or cvs--it only knows how to update to a later distribtution version. Updating package descriptions is set up by the user running "fink selfupdate-rsync" or "fink selfupdate-cvs". Running the first command will automatically switch you to rsync.
Admittedly, if you've had fink for a while, you may have set it to use cvs updating before the rsync method became available; fink doesn't change user preferences when it gets updated.
And a reason there's no such error message is that some people can't use rsync updating, due to firewalls and the like; and developers _do_ need to use cvs updating--no need to bother them to use rsync when they really can't or don't want to.
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Alexander Hansen
Fink Documentarian
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