Nick Hall wrote: >> >> failed" that the connection wasn't actually happening. Can you >> please post >> the _complete_ results of an attempt to run "fink selfupdate" so that >> we can >> see what is going on here? Actually, do "fink -vvv selfupdate" to >> crank up >> the verbosity to make sure that nothing gets missed. > > > OK here it is - It certainly appears to be asking me for a password - > > first I have to put in my mac admin password, which I obviously enter, > then it asks for a CVS password which I assume applies to the remote > machine. > For this I just hit return. (I've also tried my admin password again, > and my email address as if it were > anonymous ftp, but no success). > > So it appears my CVS experience is different from that of Lloyd Wood, > who posted earlier. > > (a quick spotlight search for cvs shows I have a unix executable in my > Developer directory. > I also have Xcode. I have no special security settings activated in > security preferences - all > my security comes from the lab firewall. ) > > mac-hall:~ hall$ > mac-hall:~ hall$ > mac-hall:~ hall$ fink -vvv selfupdate > Password: > > Fink has the capability to run the CVS commands as a normal user. That > has some advantages - it uses that user's CVS settings files and > allows the package > descriptions to be edited and updated without becoming root. Please > specify the user login name that should be used: [hall] > > For Fink developers only: Enter your SourceForge login name to set up > full CVS access. Other users, just press return to set up anonymous > read-only > access. [anonymous] > > Checking to see if we can use hard links to merge the existing tree. > Please ignore errors on the next few lines. > Now logging into the CVS server. When CVS asks you for a password, > just press return (i.e. the password is empty). > /usr/bin/su hall -c 'cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:/cvsroot/fink login' > Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:2401/cvsroot/fink > CVS password: > cvs [login aborted]: connect to > fink.cvs.sourceforge.net(66.35.250.97):2401 failed: Network is unreachable > ### execution of /usr/bin/su failed, exit code 1 > Failed: Logging into the CVS server for anonymous read-only access failed. > mac-hall:~ hall$ > mac-hall:~ hall$ > > so what command should I ask my administrator to issue from a linux > machine ? > (obviously "fink selfupdate" won't get him anywhere). > > thanks > Nick > (sorry, I just noticed that you sent this a version of this information earlier--but it's good to be up to date in any case)
OK--this makes more sense to me. Everything that _you're_ doing is as it should be, so I'd have to conclude that the firewall isn't letting you have access. The two commands below are approximately what fink actually uses. cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:/cvsroot/fink login cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:/cvsroot/fink co dists It looks like the first one is what is giving out on your box. I ran these via Cygwin on my less-protected network, and they did what they should. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
