Subject: Re: fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate (FAQ)
Newsgroups: gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 01:04:17 +0100
pH1nk wrote:
Ok. I took the mirror folder out of the tempdir folder i created with
the instructions on the web page, copied that to /sw/lib/fink/ and all
it working
Woo-hoo
Well, good for you. There is still the question why you and others keep
seeing this problem. There was a window of less than 3 hours two days
ago where this problem could come up for people who were selfupdating
then. It was fixed with the release of fink-0.17.3-1. If it came up much
later (allowing for the synchronization latency of the rsync and anoncvs
servers), there must be some mechanism at work that is yet unexplained.
Unfortunately, none of those claiming to have had this problem later,
even with fink-0.17.3-1, have given a precise account of what they were
doing to get into the problem and out of it.
As far as I am concerned, there is no clear evidence that there should
still be anything wrong, and I consider this affair closed.
Alas, it's not completely fixed. I have the current fink
package, but it still fails on fink-mirrors.
I tried downloading the fink-mirrors tarball directly and
dropping it into /sw/src, but that doesn't help either.
Chris Pepper
PS-Please CC me -- I'm not currently on this list.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sw/src$ fink list -i
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