Hi Martin,
This is what I've done thus far:
1- downloaded and installed fink on this computer last week.
2- ran selfupdate-cvs
3- ran update-all
4- installed a few unstable packages
5- ran selfupdate-rsync
6- ran selfupdate-cvs a few more times over various days
7- tried to fetch the mirrors
If you had the fink version from stable, namely 0.17.1-1, there was no need to install the fink-mirrors package. The mirrors were contained in the fink package up to this version. The problems appeared when they were split off into a separate package, starting with fink-0.17.2-1 and fink-mirrors-0.0.2-1.
8- since fink never updated to 0.17.2 I installed 0.17.3 from unstable and tried to fetch fink-mirrors again
It is always somewhat risky to install only a few packages from
unstable, and in the case of fink itself it is outright dangerous, as
you could see, because you missed the splitting off of fink-mirrors. If
you do this, you are supposed to "know what you are doing". Given that
human beings most of the time do not know what they are doing (otherwise
life would be very dull indeed ;-) ), this means that you are meant to
know enough of fink's structure to climb by yourself out of the holes you fall in. Which you did in the end.
I ran fink selfupdate-cvs again and this time I received this message:
/bin/mv /sw/fink /sw/fink.old /bin/mv: rename /sw/fink to /sw/fink.old/fink: Directory not empty ### execution of /bin/mv failed, exit code 1 Failed: Can't move "/sw/fink" out of the way
This happens when you switch between selfupdate-rsync and selfupdate-cvs
several times. It is a sign of fink's limited intelligence, but seeing
that you found the right solution, it doesn't seem necessary to do anything about it.
First time I've seen that one. I moved fink.old as fink.older and ran selfupdate again. This time it updated with the fink-mirrors.
Right.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sw]: fink list fink Information about 1301 packages read in 4 seconds. i fink 0.17.3-1 The Fink package manager i fink-mirrors 0.0.2-2 Mirror infrastructure i fink-prebinding 0.7-2 Tools for enabling prebinding in Fink fix-fink 2.1-1 Utility to fix libSystem/libpng probs in ...
All is well.
Good.
-- Martin
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