This was something that is supposedly fixed now:  I'm not sure where it
came from (one of the developers may shed some light), but usually
rebuilding the package fixes the problem.

On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 13:53, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> Please excuse me asking a question when I'm still in the middle of
> figuring out if it was the update or the update-all part that was
> behaving oddly.
> 
> I ran selfupdate-cvs, which ran fine.
> 
>      Then I ran 'fink update-all' and I got the response shown in the
> first bit of output below. There are only two things I can thing that
> might be wrong -- something with fink or something with my perl
> installation, since I had been updating some perl modules with CPAN. I
> use perl as intalled by Apple. I'm running Jaguar and using cvs.
> 
> WhenI tried to update xfree86 by simply using the update command
> it seemed to worked (it is still running as I write). Any ideas? 
> 
> 
> ====================================================================
> [imac:~] josh% fink update-all
> sudo /sw/bin/fink  update-all
> Information about 1722 packages read in 2 seconds.
> 
> pkg kspread  version ###
> pkg kspread  version 1.2.0-3
> .... [ muct too much output to do me any good deleted]
> pkg crafty-tb-four  version ###
> pkg crafty-tb-four  version 18-1
> Failed: Internal error: node for xfree86-rootless already exists
> ====================================================================
> [imac:~] josh% fink update xfree86-rootless
> sudo /sw/bin/fink  update xfree86-rootless
> Password:
> Information about 1722 packages read in 2 seconds.
> 
> pkg xfree86-rootless  version ###
> pkg xfree86-rootless  version 4.2.1.1-1
> The following package will be installed or updated:
>  xfree86-rootless
> The following 3 additional packages will be installed:
>  xfree86-base xfree86-base-shlibs xfree86-rootless-shlibs
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
> 
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