On 9/22/13 8:27 AM, jean-francois wrote: >> I'm honestly not sure. Would you be willing to put /sw/bin/tar back and try >> to update another package? > > i restored back /sw/bin/tar and ran > 'fink update-all' > to try pursuing the update - selfupdate being now complete. > > i'm getting again the same error at the first package, but now on a different > package (cpan-meta-pm5124) > Writing md5sums file... > dpkg-deb -b root-cpan-meta-pm5124-2.132510-1 > /sw/fink/10.8/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/libs/perlmods > dpkg-deb : construction du paquet « cpan-meta-pm5124 » dans « > /sw/fink/10.8/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/libs/perlmods/cpan-meta-pm5124_2.132510-1_darwin-x86_64.deb > ». > tar: mémoire épuisée > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: le sous-processus tar -cf a retourné une erreur de > sortie d'état 2 > ### execution of dpkg-deb failed, exit code 2 > > do you reckon i should run 'fink update-all' with /usr/bin/tar instead? > or am i likely to entirely mess my fink setup by doing this? > > thanks for your advice > jeanfrancois donati
There shouldn't be any lasting problems if you use /usr/bin/tar for now. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/22/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=64545871&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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