You should be able to use "fink selfupdate-cvs" to do it.  That should fully
reconstitute stable/main/finkinfo.

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On 6/5/03 9:37 AM, "Rich Ramos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Well the directory stable/main/finkinfo is missing.
> 
> [~] root# cd /sw/fink/dists
> [/sw/fink/dists] root# cvs status stable/main/finkinfo/base/fink*
> zsh: no matches found: stable/main/finkinfo/base/fink*
> [/sw/fink/dists] root# ls stable
> crypto main
> [/sw/fink/dists] root# ls stable/main
> binary-darwin-powerpc
> 
> 
> Is there a way I can repair this without having to reinstall?
> 
> -Rich
> 
> --- Original ---
> From: Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Rich Ramos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 6/5/03 9:12 AM +0200
> Subject: Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate failing
> 
> Rich Ramos wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I've done the selfupdate several times and the same results.  Any other
>> thoughts.
> 
> You first have to see whether the cvs update updated your files or not.
> Try
> 
> cd /sw/fink/dists/
> cvs status stable/main/finkinfo/base/fink*
> 
> If this shows fink-0.13.0-1.info, then you should try to run "fink
> index" three or more times. If this still doesn't help, you will need to
> contact your local voodoo priest for an exorcism (or reinstall fink).
> 
> If it shows any other version of fink, I'd like to see the output of the
> above status command.





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