Joseph Slater wrote: > When ever I do a fink selfupdate, I get the following error: > cvs update: move away dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome/mc-4.5.54-3.info; > it is in the way > C dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome/mc-4.5.54-3.info
This is generally a sign that you have, deliberately or accidentally, altered the file in question. And since the version you're CVS-synchronizing is supposed to be authoritative but the changes you made might or might not be important, CVS won't clobber your changes. SO, the solution to this is always pretty much the same: if you think you might need the changes, rename the files appropriately, and if you're sure you don't need them, just delete 'em. Either way, once you do one or both of these, CVS updates should start working again. If you want to be really safe, rename the files to something like "foo.1.2-3.info.MOVED", then do a diff on the .MOVED and the new version after a CVS update; you might be able to find anything that you wanted to save, but generally you'll find you can just delete the .MOVED file... > Along with a few (hundred or so?) others that look the same. The only > way for me to do an update is to remove these directories. This doesn't > happen on my other machine. What's wrong, and how can I fix it? Removing the directories works because it happens to remove the files, too. You should just be able to, as noted above, move the obstructing files and CVS should work again. As for why these files are getting corrupted such that CVS updates don't work, I dunno. When I've had this problem, it was because I was just learning Fink and I was spending more time tinkering with package files rather than letting the maintainers know about any problems I was coming across. (The latter is preferable as it can let all Fink users benefit from necessary patches / upgrades etc.) When I stopped editing them the CVS problems faded away over time. If this is a recurring problem for you, then something more subtle and tricky to fix may be going on. Are you having the problem re-occur on anything, &/or is it happening on files that you're sure weren't edited, had the timestamps changed, etc? -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
