Alexander Hansen wrote:

> 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

It would be interesting to see what Roy has there. I suspect there is a
small lesson there to learn.

> > The error I get when I run sudo fink selfupdate-cvs  is:

You don't need to sudo fink. Fink runs itself through sudo already.

> > I can not find a file by that name that has a permission to deny, and
> > the command has been executed with sudo.

Too much sudo can be harmful (TM).

In fact, if you do things like "sudo cvs update" or some file copying
using sudo, you get files owned by "root", where then you yourself don't
have write permission. OTOH, fink selfupdate (even if you run it as
"sudo fink selfupdate-cvs" is usually configured to run as yourself, and
it assumes that the whole /sw/fink/ directory tree is writable by
yourself. You end up with conflicts as you observed.

-- 
Martin

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