On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:13:45 -0500, Alexander Hansen > <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 1/19/12 4:45 PM, Bill Waggoner wrote: >>> Running on Lion I encountered this running selfupdate. It occurred >>> on two different machines. A second execution of selfupdate did >>> not exhibit the error ... >>>>> % fink selfupdate 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 'dad'. After that, the core packages will be updated >>> right away; you should then update the other packages using >>> commands like 'fink update-all'. >>>> /usr/bin/su dad -c 'cvs -q -z3 update -d -P -l' /usr/bin/su dad -c >>> 'cvs -q -z3 update -d -P 10.7' P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/devel/svn-swig-pm.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/devel/svn-swig-py.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/devel/svn.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/games/sdl-image.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/games/sdl-mixer.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/libaprutil.0-postgresql.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/libaprutil.0-shlibs.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/libaprutil.0-shlibs.patch P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/libaprutil.0-sqlite3.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/openldap24.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods/mozilla-ca-pm.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/net/ca-bundle.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/net/cyrus-sasl2.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/net/cyrus-sasl2.patch P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/net/postfix.info U >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/control-oct.info U >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/dicom-oct.info U >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/io-oct.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave-3.0.5.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave-3.2.4.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave-3.4.3.info U >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave-3.6.0.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave.patch U >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave360-docs.info Scanning package >>> description files.Use of uninitialized value $filename in >>> concatenation (.) or string at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/PkgVersion.pm >>> line 1989. Bad Type specifier '' in Use of uninitialized value >>> $filename in concatenation (.) or string at > >> /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/PkgVersion.pm line 1989. Bad Type specifier '' >>> in ......... Information about 4114 packages read in 2 seconds. No >>> packages to install. >>>> The core packages have been updated. You should now update the >>> other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. >> >> Try another selfupdate. I've been doing some updates and some typos >> crept in. > > Any idea which specific one triggers this symptom? If it's "that easy" > to do (even if it fails validation), we should try to provide a nicer > error message about it.
You run selfupdate at about 11AM-ish 1/19/2012 PDT. It goes away when you re-run it. (At least that's what happened to me.) -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - ht...@twofifty.com BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ 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
