The selfupdate command can be set to do two things, either only update fink when there is a new distribution release where it downloads the tarball of the new distro unpacks it and installs it, or it can be set to update the packages individually directly from cvs so there is no tarball and you have the advantage of getting the latest changes and updates. I recommend this anyway as some of the packages in 0.4.0 are broken due to sourceforge changing to using mirrors for there urls after the 0.4.0 release and is fixed in cvs.
So when you run fink selfupdate-cvs you should get the option of choosing to set selfupdate to update the packages directly from cvs. The reason I suggested this as I thought your tarball might of being corrupted for some reason. Also if memory serves me correctly a couple of months back someone was having trouble with tar on the fink users list, you could try searching the archives. HTH Matt On Friday, June 14, 2002, at 11:21 PM, James Beckett wrote: > I tried that. I error out at the same point: gzip: stdin: not in gzip > format and tar fails. > > Note that Stephano reported the same error. tar would not unpack the > file. > > "tar -xvzf /sw/src/nedit-5.2RC1-src.tar.Z > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > ### tar failed, exit code 2 " > > I also tried to download nedit and got the same errors as stefano. > > I see that my tar file is uptodate. > > Jim > > Matt Stephenson wrote: > >> Run "fink selfupdate-cvs" this will get the latest packages for you >> and update you to Fink distribution 0.4.0 >> >> Matt >> >> On Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 09:14 AM, Jim and Barbara Beckett wrote: >> >>> When I do sudo fink selfupdate I get the following error >>> >>> << >>> The file "LATEST-FINK" already exists, how do you want to proceed? >>> [1] 1 >>> rm -f LATEST-FINK >>> curl -f -L -O http://fink.sourceforge.net/LATEST-FINK >>> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed >>> Time Curr. >>> Dload Upload Total Current >>> Left Speed >>> 100 6 100 6 0 0 28 0 0:00:00 0:00:00 >>> 0:00:00 0 >>> >>> I will now download the package descriptions for Fink 0.4.0 and >>> update the >>> core packages. After that, you should update the other packages using >>> commands like 'fink update-all'. >>> >>> tar -xzvf packages-0.4.0.tar.gz >>> >>> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format >>> tar: Child returned status 1 >>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >>> ### tar failed, exit code 2 >>> Failed: unpacking packages-0.4.0.tar.gz failed >>> >>> >> >>> >>> So it seems the file is not recognized. Do I run it through Stuffit >>> lite? >>> >>> I have version .32 of fink and have recently updated it. Is there >>> some new kind of tar? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Jim >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________________________ >>> >>> Sponsored by: >>> ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Fink-beginners mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas - > http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
