On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 07:08PM, Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Koen van der Drift wrote: > >> >It might have something to do with tar's handling of gzipped files, since >> >I can manually "gunzip" and then "tar -x" the file, but I can't extract it >> >with "tar -xz". When I do extract it manually, however, I get the fink >> >source in /sw/src/fink-0.9.11, not in /sw/src/fink-0.9.11-1. Is this a >> >problem in fink? > >> I had exactly the same problem a few days ago, and there was another report >> too on this list. I finally ended up reinstalling fink (of course after >> saving my debs ;) >Since this seems to be recurring, it would be better if we could find >the true reason for this problem. Benjamin, could you try to reinstall >the packages > >tar >gzip >gettext >libiconv > >and try after each one whether the problem goes away? Actually, I couldn't install tar because of this very problem. However, I tried earlier today to replace /sw/bin/tar with my own "home-built" (fink was not involved) version of GNU tar, and the problem persisted. I couldn't install gzip because of the following error, which is probably way off-topic, but what the heck: dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base/gzip_1.2.4a-6_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install): failed to open package info file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' for reading: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base/gzip_1.2.4a-6_darwin-powerpc.deb ### dpkg failed, exit code 1 Should I do the same as tar for the gzip package and install it manually? I'm not sure about that one, because I'm fairly certain that I couldn't reinstall gzip if I fubar'd it, which I probably would. -- Benjamin Esham [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bdesham.net _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
