On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 02:07:38PM -0700, Avram Aelony wrote:
>  
> hi, 
> 
> I actually had looked at the FAQ prior to posting.   This is what I 
> see. 
> 
> % fink selfupdate-cvs 
> sudo /sw/bin/fink  selfupdate-cvs 
> Password: 
> 
> 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 
> 'aelony'. 
> After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should 
> then 
> update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. 
> 
> su aelony -c 'cvs  -z3 update -d -P' 
> 10.1/             CVS/              debs/             override 
> 10.2/             ChangeLog         dists@            stamp-cvs-live 
> 10.2-gcc3.3/      README            inject.pl*        stamp-rel-0.3.0 
> 10.3/             VERSION           old/              stamp-rel-0.3.2a 
> 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. 
>  
> There are *no* other above messages by the way.. 
> If the case is that  
>       "then it's likely that the cvs servers are overloaded and you 
> have to try the update later."  
> ...as the FAQ states... I will try that. 
> However I don't suspect that to be the problem. 
 
I get the same output just about every time (without the directory
output, but I am using the fink installed cvs.)  It *is* because the
sourceforge CVS servers are extremely loaded.

http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2352&group_id=1#cvs

An upcoming release of fink should solve this by using rsync.

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