I don't know if this is a known issue or not, but I pass it along in case it
needs to be squeezed into the docs somewhere. "man fink" didn't show it as
a problem and I didn't see anything obvious in the bug tracker.
When you get fink from CVS, you have to execute "fink selfupdate-cvs" from a
directory which does not have a CVS directory for some other project. The
result, while benign, is failure:
% fink selfupdate-cvs
sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate-cvs
I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions.
The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'skip'.
After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then
update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'.
su skip -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P'
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)
### execution of su failed, exit code 1
Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.
The error message gives you no indication as to the real cause of the
problem. Switch to a non-CVS directory and you're golden:
% fink selfupdate-cvs
sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate-cvs
I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions.
The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'skip'.
After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then
update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'.
su skip -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P'
? 10.1
? stamp-rel-0.4.0
cvs server: Updating .
cvs server: Updating 10.2
cvs server: Updating 10.2/stable
...
FYI.
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