I believe that this is just a coincidence: I've gotten the same error message running selfupdate-cvs from my home directory, which has no CVS directories in it. I've always attributed it to a busy server.
On 6/9/03 9:55 AM, "Skip Montanaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
