At 9:16 AM -0400 14/5/02, Chris Devers wrote: > >On Tue, 14 May 2002, Kevin Horton wrote: > >> I'm using the latest fink, updated daily from cvs, setup to use >> unstable packages. >> >> Yesterday there were a large number of packages to update, so I left >> the computer overnight to do the fink update-all. Everything >> appeared to finish OK. This morning, I did another fink selfupdate >> to see if any more packages were updated, and I got >> >> su kwh -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P' >> cvs is not installed. >> ### su failed, exit code 1 >> Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. >> >> So, I did: >> [cube:~] kwh% which cvs >> /sw/bin/cvs >> >> Well, this was a puzzle. I have been using the cvs that came with >> the developer tools - I had not installed the fink cvs. On a whim, I >> did a fink install cvs, which worked fine, and cvs was working again. >> But, I would rather just use Apple's cvs, so I did a fink remove cvs, >> hoping that this would put things right, but now I have the same "cvs >> is not installed" problem as before. >> >> There is an apparently good cvs at /usr/bin/cvs: >> >> [cube:~] kwh% /usr/bin/cvs --version >> >> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.10 `Halibut' (client/server) >> >> So, why do I have a /sw/cvs if fink's cvs is not installed? How do I >> make things right again? > >As it happens, the same thing you describe happened to me yesterday -- cvs >wasn't available, even though it was definitely installed. For lack of a >better idea I ended up reinstalling the Fink-provided version of cvs, even >though it was definitely already available in /sw/bin. I have no idea why >the file didn't work, but rebuilding made the problem go away. > >Maybe someone else can offer an explanation as to why this is happening? > > >-- >Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, I'm puzzled, but the problem has gone away after a couple of reboots. Fink's cvs is not installed, and fink selfupdate is working OK again. Kevin _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
