This problem shows up every so often; I've had it with .info files. Try removing the offending file, and do the selfupdate again--a new file will be downloaded.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Hester, Jeffrey W. wrote: > Hello all, > > For some reason I can't do a fink update. It gives permission problems. > I'm not sure why since I run it with "sudo" and have admin permissions. Any > help would be *greatly* appreciated. Why does it say I don't have the right > permissions? Thanks. > > My printout (modified to remove many of the dists) follows. > > Thanks. > > Jeff > > "Your Fink installation is set up to update package descriptions directly > from > CVS. Do you want to use this setup and update now? [Y/n] > > I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. > The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'hester'. > After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then > update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. > > su myusername -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P' > ? stamp-rel-0.3.1 > ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/curl-ssl-7.9-1.info > ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/gnupg-1.0.6-7.info > ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/gnupg-1.0.6-7.patch > ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/gnupg-egd-1.0.6-1.info > ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/gnupg-egd-1.0.6-1.patch > ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/pine-ssl-4.33-4.info > ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/pine-ssl-4.33-4.patch > ? dists/stable/main/finkinfo/base/base-files-1.3-1.info > ? dists/stable/main/finkinfo/base/fink-0.9.4-1.info > ? dists/stable/main/finkinfo/base/gettext-0.10.40-1.info > ? dists/stable/main/finkinfo/base/gettext-0.10.! > 40-1.patch > ? dists/stable/main/finkinfo/base/ncurses-5.2-5.info > ? dists/stable/main/finkinfo/base/ncurses-5.2-5.patch > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-system/xfree86-base-4.1.0-8.info > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-system/xfree86-base-4.1.0-8.patch > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/afterstep-1.8.8-1.info > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/afterstep-1.8.8-1.patch > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/fvwm-common-2.4.3-1.info > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/fvwm-icons-2.4.0-3.info > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/fvwm2-2.4.3-1.info > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/fvwm2-2.4.3-1.patch > > --other dists removed by me in this e-mail-- > > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/fvwm2-no-gnome-2.4.3-1.info > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/sawfish-1.0-1.info > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/sawfish-1.0-1.patch > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/windowmaker-0.70.0-3.info > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/windowmaker-0.70.0-3.patch > cvs server: Updating . > P ChangeLog > cvs [update aborted]: cannot open .new.ChangeLog: Permission denied > ### su failed, exit code 1 > Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. > [pcwrplap:~] hester% > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
