The original Changelog file is /sw/fink/Changelog, and for some reason you aren't able to create .new.Changelog .
What do your permissions and ownership look like for /sw/fink and /sw/fink/Changelog? For comparison mine are: drwxr-xr-x 13 hansen admin 398 Feb 21 10:54 fink -rw-r--r-- 1 hansen admin 1163 Jan 15 17:10 ChangeLog Somebody else had an identical problem a while back. -- 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, 18 Apr 2002, Roy Mendelssohn wrote: > Because i was trying to access a number of unstable packages, fink at > one point when I reconfigured to check those listings that I > reconfigure to selfupdate to cvs. I problem is that now I can't get > selfupdate to work, and I can't figure out how to undo that setting > (I have looked at the conf file, but I don't see anything obvious). > > The error I get when I run sudo fink selfupdate-cvs is: > > cvs [update aborted]: cannot open .new.ChangeLog: Permission denied > > > I can not find a file by that name that has a permission to deny, and > the command has been executed with sudo. > > Any help suggestions etc would be greatly appreciated. > > -Roy M. > -- > Roy Mendelssohn > Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group > 1352 Lighthouse Avenue > Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097 > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > voice: (831)-648-9029 > fax: (831)-648-8440 > www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ > > "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." > > _______________________________________________ > 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
