-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 09:26 PM, James J. Sorenson wrote:
> I have been getting occasional errors when installing certain packages > that use "rm -rf." For instance, the netpbm package from the current > unstable distribution will always error out when it tries: > rm -rf /sw/src/root-netpbm-9.24-3/sw/share/man/man1 > > I get "Directory not empty" errors. This makes no sense! With the -r > option, rm should be clearing the subdirectories and files as well. > When I clear the debian package and source files, the error will always > occur at the same spot. In other words, "rm- rf" works fine multiple > times until it reaches "/sw/src/root- > netpbm-9.24-3/sw/share/man/man1." I added the following line above it > to get around this error: > rm -f /sw/src/root-netpbm-9.24-3/sw/share/man/man1/* there was a thread about this a while ago on the devel list i think. basically gnu's rm command sometimes has problems with large numbers of files...you probably installed fileutils at some point. do a "which rm". if you get anything but /bin/rm, move it or remove it so you get /bin/rm for your rm. the other thing you could do is change the order of your $PATH, but that is not encouraged, because most of the time people want the programs in /usr/local to be run instead of the default. - -chris zubrzycki - - -- PGP public key: http://homepage.mac.com/beren/publickey.txt ID: 0xA2ABC070 Fingerprint: 26B0 BA6B A409 FA83 42B3 1688 FBF9 8232 A2AB C070 ======================================================== "Twice blessed is help unlooked for." --Tolkien -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (Darwin) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8o9bt+/mCMqKrwHARAvNrAJ9p2cRJ+QTNMnPxKoFEmwQH9k1NbwCgjq+s NGuvebULE5pXcrzvpDI1WkA= =JmKn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
