On 12/28/05, Brian Shiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having trouble getting Fink to selfupdate. Neither rsync nor > cvs seem to work. Here is the output from each and from fink > scanpackages: > > fink selfupdate-rsync > ----------------------------- > > rsync -az -q rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP / > sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp > rsync: failed to connect to master.us.finkmirrors.net: Operation > timed out (60) > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/ > rsync-20/rsync/clientserver.c(94) > ### execution of rsync failed, exit code 10 > Failed to fetch the timestamp file from the rsync server: rsync:// > master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/. Check the error messages above. > (1) Give up > (2) Retry the same mirror > (3) Retry another mirror from your country > (4) Retry another mirror > > How do you want to proceed? [3] > rsync -az -q rsync://msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP / > sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp > rsync: failed to connect to msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net: Operation > timed out (60) > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/ > rsync-20/rsync/clientserver.c(94) > ### execution of rsync failed, exit code 10 > Failed to fetch the timestamp file from the rsync server: rsync:// > msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/. Check the error messages above. > (1) Give up > (2) Retry the same mirror > (3) Retry another mirror from your country > (4) Retry another mirror > > How do you want to proceed? [3] 4 > rsync -az -q rsync://bru.be.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP / > sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp > rsync: failed to connect to bru.be.eu.finkmirrors.net: Operation > timed out (60) > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/ > rsync-20/rsync/clientserver.c(94) > ### execution of rsync failed, exit code 10 > Failed to fetch the timestamp file from the rsync server: rsync:// > bru.be.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/. Check the error messages above. > (1) Give up > (2) Retry the same mirror > (3) Retry another mirror from your country > (4) Retry another mirror > > How do you want to proceed? [4] 1 > No mirror worked. This seems unusual, please submit a short summary > of this event to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thank you > > > fink selfupdate-cvs > -------------------------- > > Fink has the capability to run the CVS commands as a normal user. > That has some advantages - it uses that user's CVS settings files and > allows > the package descriptions to be edited and updated without becoming > root. Please specify the user login name that should be used: [brian] > > For Fink developers only: Enter your SourceForge login name to set up > full CVS access. Other users, just press return to set up anonymous > read-only access. [anonymous] > > Checking to see if we can use hard links to merge the existing tree. > Please ignore errors on the next few lines. > Now logging into the CVS server. When CVS asks you for a password, > just press return (i.e. the password is empty). > /usr/bin/su brian -c 'cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ > cvsroot/fink login' > Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/cvsroot/fink > CVS password: > cvs [login aborted]: connect to cvs.sourceforge.net(66.35.250.207): > 2401 failed: Operation timed out > ### execution of /usr/bin/su failed, exit code 1 > Failed: Logging into the CVS server for anonymous read-only access > failed. > > > fink scanpackages > -------------------------
For future reference, "scanpackages" is 100% irrelevant for getting _new_ packages. It basically exists to make the binary tools aware of packages you've already built from source. > > > I really need to get my package list updated to install some packages > not available as binaries. Can anyone help? > > Thanks, > Brian > > rsync selfupdate worked for me (as I write this). Give it another try. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
