-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/29/11 3:54 PM, Thomas A. Fine wrote: > Hi, > > Does this list accept email from non-members?
yes. :-) Guess I'll find out. I > just wanted to pass this on. > > My fink selfupdate was failing with the ./Commmand/touch.t test on > line 21. After a little poking around on the net (which suggested > this only happens on network shares), and in the code, I figured > out that the problem was poor time synchronization between the > client where I was doing the build, and the server. > > The test creates a file, sleeps a second, then touches the file, > and checks > > This will fail if the server's clock is more than a second ahead > of the client's. The initial mod time is set by the server when > the file is created. The touch command explicitly sets the file > mod time to the current time (on the machine where it runs). So > the test fails, because after touchging the file, it is not newly > touched like it should be. > > Properly syncing my client solved this problem. Periodic updates > always seem to stick apple.com back into my /etc/ntp.conf file, > even though I keep insisting that's not what I want. So I fixed > ntp.conf on the client, restarted the ntpd process, and everything > built fine. > > tom > > Thanks for the update. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5cBe8ACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+y7QCeP2DCEGpKc3kezRvs3MeAwf5Z RXQAn3zJMH9r0q6LW44KKx/c+lbboowS =ANIA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
