The original Changelog file is /sw/fink/Changelog, and for some reason you
aren't able to create .new.Changelog .
What do your permissions and ownership look like for /sw/fink and
/sw/fink/Changelog? For comparison mine are:
drwxr-xr-x 13 hansen admin 398 Feb 21 10:54 fink
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Subject: Re: [Fink-users] Help with fink selfupdate-cvs
The original Changelog file is /sw/fink/Changelog, and for some reason you
aren't able to create .new.Changelog .
What do your permissions and ownership look like for /sw/fink and
/sw/fink/Changelog? For comparison mine
Alexander Hansen wrote:
What do your permissions and ownership look like for /sw/fink and
/sw/fink/Changelog? For comparison mine are:
drwxr-xr-x 13 hansen admin 398 Feb 21 10:54 fink
-rw-r--r-- 1 hansen admin1163 Jan 15 17:10 ChangeLog
It would be interesting to
Martin has gotten to the crux of the matter. As I have already
replied, my permissions were wrong. Early on, I did sudo fink and
all the permissions are root. I have been changing permissions and
finding many problems go away.
The members of this list have been very prompt and helpful and
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Martin Costabel wrote:
The error I get when I run sudo fink selfupdate-cvs is:
You don't need to sudo fink. Fink runs itself through sudo already.
True, but execution seems a bit faster if you just explicitly run under
sudo originally, since you're going right to it
