Alexander is correct. It's probably a permissions problem. I had this same problem and had to change the permissions via Alexander's recommendation.
Jeff > ---------- > From: Alexander Hansen > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:10 PM > To: Roy Mendelssohn > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Fink-users] Help with fink selfupdate-cvs > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
