Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem

2010-02-05 Thread James Howse
Suddenly this morning without any action on my part, fink selfupdate works again. Are you aware of any changes made at the fink end? James Alexander, When I run the command rsync -az -v rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /opt/fink/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp from the

[Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem

2010-02-03 Thread James Howse
Just this week I have started getting the following error when running fink selfupdate. Any suggestions on what the problem might be? Thanks, James fink -v selfupdate rsync -az -v rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /opt/fink/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp rsync: failed to connect

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem

2010-02-03 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/3/10 11:19 AM, James Howse wrote: Just this week I have started getting the following error when running fink selfupdate. Any suggestions on what the problem might be? Thanks, James fink -v selfupdate rsync -az -v

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem

2010-02-03 Thread James Howse
Alexander, I considered that possibility because I am behind various proxies and firewalls, so I ran the following rsync command which tries to retrieve a copy of the rsync source code from samba.org. rsync -av --exclude=.git/ rsync://rsync.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/rsync /dest/dir/ This works

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem

2010-02-03 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What happens if you run the rsync command that Fink is using manually? Does that work? On 2/3/10 11:48 AM, James Howse wrote: Alexander, I considered that possibility because I am behind various proxies and firewalls, so I ran the following rsync

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem

2010-02-03 Thread James Howse
Alexander, When I run the command rsync -az -v rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /opt/fink/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp from the command line it fails with the same error message. rsync: failed to connect to distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net: Connection refused (61) rsync error:

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem

2010-02-03 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
A shot in the dark, but in the past, I've run into proxy issues caused by my Netbeans. Not sure if Netbeans is your IDE or if this problem is even remotely related (this one bug stemmed from framework that's not part of j2me), but food for thought. Sometimes the IDE has proxy settings that

[Fink-users] Selfupdate problem

2006-04-14 Thread Bill Spotz
When I do a 'fink selfupdate', I get some unexpected warnings. Some of the packages update, but some do not. I have confirmed with a package maintainer that I am not seeing the latest version of a package I am interested in upgrading. Here is what I am seeing: $ fink selfupdate

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate problem

2006-04-14 Thread Daniel Macks
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:32:13PM -0600, Bill Spotz wrote: When I do a 'fink selfupdate', I get some unexpected warnings. Some of the packages update, but some do not. I have confirmed with a package maintainer that I am not seeing the latest version of a package I am interested in

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate problem

2006-04-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Bill Spotz wrote: When I do a 'fink selfupdate', I get some unexpected warnings. Some of the packages update, but some do not. I have confirmed with a package maintainer that I am not seeing the latest version of a package I am interested in upgrading. Here is what I am seeing: $ fink

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate problem

2006-04-14 Thread Bill Spotz
Daniel, Martin, Thanks for the responses. Fortunately, I have been able to figure out how to get rsync to work from behind my proxy server, so this works for me. On Apr 14, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Bill Spotz wrote: When I do a 'fink selfupdate', I get some unexpected

[Fink-users] selfupdate problem

2006-02-21 Thread Bob Portmann
I just tried installing fink on a new Mac G5 Quad, OSX 10.4.5, XCode 2.1, and cannot get past the fink selfupdate command (after running fink scanpackages and fink index as requested). The selfupdate fails with the following error: /sw/src/fink.build/cctools-extra-590.18-2/cctools-590.18 /bin/rm

[Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem With gettext-dev-0.10.40-24; Workaround

2005-08-20 Thread Jonathan Levi MD
Attempting a selfupdate, I got (approximately) parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 4695 package `libgettext3-dev': missing version failed: Can't install gettext-dev-0.10.40-24 Investigating file /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status, I found that line 4695 was blank, and was

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem With gettext-dev-0.10.40-24; Workaround

2005-08-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Aug 20, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Jonathan Levi MD wrote: Attempting a selfupdate, I got (approximately) parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 4695 package `libgettext3-dev': missing version failed: Can't install gettext-dev-0.10.40-24 Investigating file

[Fink-users] selfupdate problem with mirrors

2004-03-10 Thread Koen van der Drift
Hi, Is there a problem with selfupdate using rsync? I haven't seen new info files in about 2 days, for instance the new xfree86 and kde. I tried changing mirrors with fink configure, but that didn't help, one mirror (atl) give this error: The timestamp of the server is older than what you

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate problem with mirrors

2004-03-10 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Alexander Hansen wrote: I've had the same problem--using CVS update brings in the files, and switching back to rsync takes them away again. On Mar 10, 2004, at 9:50 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: Is there a problem with selfupdate using rsync? I haven't seen new info files in about 2 days, for

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate problem in Panther

2003-11-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Jack Repenning wrote: My attempt to selfupdate fink ended in Failed: no matching version found for bzip2. What's broke? How do I fix it? You might want to just try another selfupdate. It should bring you the package descriptions from the 0.6.2 distribution and then automatically recompile a

[Fink-users] selfupdate problem in Panther

2003-11-20 Thread Jack Repenning
My attempt to selfupdate fink ended in Failed: no matching version found for bzip2. What's broke? How do I fix it? System is Panther (10.3.1). I don't think I've ever selfupdated fink; my existing fink installation (installed under 10.2.something) was Fink 0.13.2. Note that I do have a

[Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem -- autoconf2.5-2.54-1 install failed

2003-01-17 Thread Andreas Gschwendtner
Hi everybody, I ran into the following error when when tried my regular fink-selfupdate-cvs and fink update-all commands: Errors were encountered while processing: /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/devel/ autoconf2.5_2.54-1_darwin-powerpc.deb ### execution of dpkg failed,

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem -- autoconf2.5-2.54-1 installfailed

2003-01-17 Thread Michael E. Zwick
I had the same problem - I do not think you have all the error listed. In my case there appeared to be a dependency problem with automake. I manually reinstalled/upgraged automake first then did a selfupdate. That solved the problem. Mike Hi everybody, I ran into the following error when

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem -- dpkg failed to compile

2003-01-17 Thread Alexander Hansen
This one is in the FAQ: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php#head -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 On Fri, 17 Jan

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem -- dpkg failed to compile

2003-01-17 Thread case
DOH! I didn't even catch that one in the FAQ. Thanks... It's working now. So is there any way for 'head' and 'HEAD' to coexist peacefully on OS X? (I just copied 'head' from another install and renamed 'HEAD' to 'HEAD2' for now, not in that order ;) anything else you suggest?) Thanks again.

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate Problem -- autoconf2.5-2.54-1 install failed

2003-01-17 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 12:52 PM, Andreas Gschwendtner wrote: Hi everybody, I ran into the following error when when tried my regular fink-selfupdate-cvs and fink update-all commands: Errors were encountered while processing:

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate problem

2002-11-16 Thread Dylan Foley
On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 01:46 PM, Alexander Meier wrote: hi, please have a look at the following problem... I've had this problem before - but forgot how I solved it then! maybe this will help you remember http://www.mail-archive.com/fink- [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00288.html --