Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate failure

2015-07-29 Thread Luigi Ernesto Zanotti
On 29-07-2015 16:23, Alexander Hansen wrote: On Jul 29, 2015, at 01:42, Luigi Ernesto Zanotti mailto:luigi.zano...@mib.infn.it>> wrote: Since the stop of CVS service is gettting longer and longer, I tried to switch to rsync on one of my Macs, getting the following result. What does it mean?

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate failure

2015-07-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jul 29, 2015, at 01:42, Luigi Ernesto Zanotti > wrote: > > Since the stop of CVS service is gettting longer and longer, I tried to > switch to rsync on one of my Macs, getting the following result. > What does it mean? > —— > rsync: delete_file: rmdir "/sw/fink/10.7/unstable/main" fail

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate failure

2015-07-24 Thread Luigi Ernesto Zanotti
On 24-07-2015 12:32, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: On 7/24/2015 3:30 AM, Luigi Ernesto Zanotti wrote: Since a few days "selfupdate" fails wth the following message: I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. The 'su' command will be used to run the CVS command

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate failure

2015-07-24 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 7/24/2015 3:30 AM, Luigi Ernesto Zanotti wrote: > Since a few days "selfupdate" fails wth the following message: > > 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 'luigiernesto'. After that, > the

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate failure on touch.t test (solved)

2011-08-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/29/11 3:54 PM, Thomas A. Fine wrote: > Hi, > > Does this list accept email from non-members? yes. :-) Guess I'll find out. I > just wanted to pass this on. > > My fink selfupdate was failing with the ./Commmand/touch.t test on > line 21. Aft

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate failure in tar

2004-02-15 Thread dan
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:08:03 +0100, Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tricia Balle wrote: > > gzip -dc /sw/src/dpkg-1.10.9.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xf - > > sh: /sw/bin/gzip: No such file or directory > What is strange is that the command line only says "gzip", > whereas sh complains abo

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate failure in tar

2004-02-15 Thread Martin Costabel
Tricia Balle wrote: gzip -dc /sw/src/dpkg-1.10.9.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xf - sh: /sw/bin/gzip: No such file or directory What is strange is that the command line only says "gzip", whereas sh complains about "/sw/bin/gzip". Do you have some other candidate for "gzip", for example in /usr/local/bin

RE: [Fink-users] selfupdate failure in tar

2004-02-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
-Original Message- From: Tricia Balle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 10:29 PM To: Alexander Hansen Cc: fink Users Subject: Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate failure in tar No, this doesn't help. I really don't think it's a problem with gzip per se

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate failure in tar

2004-02-14 Thread Tricia Balle
No, this doesn't help. I really don't think it's a problem with gzip per se - I can run the command that appears to break from my command line once fink selfupdate has failed, and it doesn't report any errors. The following 3 packages will be installed or updated: apt apt-shlibs dpkg rm -rf dp

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate failure in tar

2004-02-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Feb 14, 2004, at 6:45 PM, Tricia Balle wrote: Thank you for the suggestion, but gzip is not missing. It's sitting quite happily in /sw/bin: > ls -lrt /sw/bin/gzip -rwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 72088 Nov 13 2002 /sw/bin/gzip Something else is causing the problem. Tricia On Saturday, February

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate failure in tar

2004-02-14 Thread Tricia Balle
Thank you for the suggestion, but gzip is not missing. It's sitting quite happily in /sw/bin: > ls -lrt /sw/bin/gzip -rwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 72088 Nov 13 2002 /sw/bin/gzip Something else is causing the problem. Tricia On Saturday, February 14, 2004, at 06:56 PM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: On

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate failure in tar

2004-02-13 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Feb 13, 2004, at 11:24 PM, Tricia Balle wrote: Information about 1328 packages read in 7 seconds. The following 3 packages will be installed or updated: apt apt-shlibs dpkg rm -rf dpkg-1.10.9-50 mkdir -p /sw/src/dpkg-1.10.9-50 gzip -dc /sw/src/dpkg-1.10.9.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xf - sh: /sw/bin/

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate failure

2003-10-03 Thread Stephen Anderson
On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:34 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: You might consider installing Fink's cvs package. There have been quite a few reports recently on this problem, and apparently it's restricted to the builitin cvs. That seems to have fixed it. At least it's trying now Than

Re: [Fink-users] Selfupdate failure

2003-10-03 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
You might consider installing Fink's cvs package. There have been quite a few reports recently on this problem, and apparently it's restricted to the builitin cvs. On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:24 PM, Stephen Anderson wrote: When I try to selfupdate fink, I get the following error: [bloom