At 7:53 PM -0400 on 4/25/02, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>> That didn't work.
Actually...it might have done something. The number of files causing a
problem, having done what you said, has been considerably reduced, but that
could be because I was updating, instead of listing. (see below)
>
> Ok, but you don't answer my questions here. Are the files corrupted? Are
> the files empty?
Don't look to be there at all. (See below, again)
> Have you done a recent CVS update?
Yes.
> If the symptoms you're getting are consistent, then try picking one of
> your .info files (at random, I guess) and send it to the list. Most likely
> it won't help -- unless there's something broken with *all* of them, then
> the problem has to be somewhere else -- but it will at least narrow things
> down a bit.
Here. Take a look at this:
[user-119ac86:~] rah% fink update-all
sudo /sw/bin/fink update-all
Password:
Reading package info...
No package name in /sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/apt-0.5.4-1.info
No package name in
/sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/base-files-1.5-1.info
No package name in /sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/bzip2-1.0.1-4.info
No package name in
/sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/debianutils-1.15-4.info
No package name in /sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/dpkg-1.9.17-2.info
No package name in
/sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/dpkg-bootstrap-1.9.17-2.info
No package name in /sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/fink-0.9.7.info
No package name in
/sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/gettext-0.10.40-2.info
No package name in /sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/gzip-1.2.4a-5.info
No package name in /sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/libiconv-1.7-3.info
No package name in /sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/ncurses-5.2-6.info
No package name in /sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/tar-1.13.19-1.info
Information about 440 packages read in 6 seconds.
pkg base-files version ###
pkg base-files version 1.5-1
pkg debianutils version ###
pkg debianutils version 1.15-4
pkg xfree86-base version ###
pkg xfree86-base version 4.2.0-4
pkg tar version ###
pkg tar version 1.13.19-1
pkg dhcp version ###
pkg dhcp version 3.0-2
pkg gzip version ###
pkg gzip version 1.2.4a-6
pkg dpkg version ###
pkg dpkg version 1.9.20-1
pkg gettext version ###
pkg gettext version 0.10.40-2
pkg macosx version ###
pkg macosx version 10.1.4-1
pkg darwin version ###
pkg darwin version 5.4-1
pkg texinfo version ###
pkg texinfo version 4.0-4
pkg apt version ###
pkg apt version 0.5.4-1
pkg gdbm-shlibs version ###
pkg gdbm-shlibs version 1.8.0-6
pkg gdbm version ###
pkg gdbm version 1.8.0-6
pkg xfree86-rootless version ###
pkg xfree86-rootless version 4.2.0-2
pkg libiconv version ###
pkg libiconv version 1.7-3
pkg wmcalclock version ###
pkg wmcalclock version 1.25-1
pkg zlib version ###
pkg zlib version 1.1.4-1
pkg bzip2 version ###
pkg bzip2 version 1.0.2-1
pkg gnupg version ###
pkg gnupg version 1.0.6-9
pkg fink version ###
pkg fink version 0.9.11-1
pkg ncurses version ###
pkg ncurses version 5.2-6
No packages to install.
[user-119ac86:~] rah% cat
/sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/apt-0.5.4-1.inf
cat: /sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/apt-0.5.4-1.inf: No such file
or directory
[user-119ac86:~] rah% ls /sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/
apt-0.5.4-1.info debianutils-1.15-4.info fink-0.9.7.info
ncurses-5.2-6.info
apt-0.5.4-1.patch debianutils-1.15-4.patch
gettext-0.10.40-2.info ncurses-5.2-6.patch
base-files-1.5-1.info dpkg-1.9.17-2.info
gettext-0.10.40-2.patch tar-1.13.19-1.info
bzip2-1.0.1-4.info dpkg-1.9.17-2.patch gzip-1.2.4a-5.info
bzip2-1.0.1-4.patch dpkg-bootstrap-1.9.17-2.info libiconv-1.7-3.info
[user-119ac86:~] rah%
> On a different tack, who owns the files in the /sw/fink/dist tree? Do they
> belong to your user's account? Are the permissions set to "-rw-------"?
Doesn't look like it. Is this the problem, then?:
[user-119ac86:~] rah% ls -al /sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/
total 304
drwxr-xr-x 20 root staff 636 Mar 28 13:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root staff 264 Mar 28 13:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 4361 Apr 6 20:28 apt-0.5.4-1.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 23414 Apr 6 20:28 apt-0.5.4-1.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 630 Apr 6 20:28 base-files-1.5-1.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 833 Apr 6 20:28 bzip2-1.0.1-4.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 4522 Apr 6 20:28 bzip2-1.0.1-4.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 769 Apr 6 20:28 debianutils-1.15-4.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 46105 Apr 6 20:28 debianutils-1.15-4.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1273 Apr 6 20:28 dpkg-1.9.17-2.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 10716 Apr 6 20:28 dpkg-1.9.17-2.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1124 Apr 6 20:28 dpkg-bootstrap-1.9.17-2.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 500 Apr 6 20:28 fink-0.9.7.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1327 Apr 6 20:28 gettext-0.10.40-2.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 547 Apr 6 20:28 gettext-0.10.40-2.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1118 Apr 6 20:28 gzip-1.2.4a-5.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1049 Apr 6 20:28 libiconv-1.7-3.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 891 Apr 6 20:28 ncurses-5.2-6.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 3008 Apr 6 20:28 ncurses-5.2-6.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 759 Apr 6 20:28 tar-1.13.19-1.info
Maybe something got changed when I did the 10.1.4 upgrade or something?
>> So, having done the above, what do I do about the following?:
>>
>> > That should rebuild the stable & unstable trees. If it works, you'll
>> > have to go through and move the .deb files from deep into the -moved
>> > branches over to equivalent points in the new copies. This isn't hard,
>> > just boring, as you could have a couple of hundred files to shift
>> > around.
>
> If the earlier advice didn't help, then this doesn't apply. If you tried
> moving the stable & unstable directories (did it make new ones, by the
> way?), remove the new ones ("rm -rf") and put the originals back.
>
>
> I don't see enough detail to see where the problem is yet. You sent part
> of a log file before. Maybe sending more of one -- earlier entries? --
> would help nail down where the problem is. So far I'm just confused...
Okay, so now what?
Thanks for all your help.
Cheers,
RAH
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