On Apr 5, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Holger Schulz wrote:
Am 05.04.2005 um 14:50 schrieb Alexander K. Hansen:
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.
I thinks that's the case here. I never ran fink selfupdate-cvs. But I've set it to rsync.
And a reason there's no such error message is that some people can't use rsync updating, due to firewalls and the like;
But they will never know, if thez don't try. Isn't it better to get a hint in the error message instead of posting a question to a list and get the same hint a day later? Since rsync seems to be the recommended method, teh disadvantage of an cvs error could be turned into an advantage of a hint to try rsync.
The error code you're seeing comes from /usr/bin/cvs itself, not fink.
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.
I think developers know that. They could ignore a hint on trying rsync obviously.
hs
Yes, they could ignore it, but why bother them, and slow fink's operation down by having it try to catch an error message from /usr/bin/cvs?
The feature is documented in "man fink.conf" in any case, and is also in the FAQ and User's guide.
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Alexander Hansen
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