On Saturday, June 15, 2002, at 12:21 PM, Stefano wrote:
> Hi, > > there seems to be something odd in my fink directory. > Following Matt's suggestion to find out what was the problem in updating > nedit I checked the finkinfo directories. First of all in /sw I have the > fink directory and a fink.old directory. Is this normal? Can I get rid > of > fink.old? The fink.old directory is the result of running for the first time fink selfupdate with the option of updating packages directly from cvs, and can be removed. > Moreover in the various subdirectories of > /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo > I have two .info files for many packages, the most recent one owned by > me > and an older one owned by root. For instance here is a bit of my > directory > including nedit (which is indeed one of the packages with double .info > file): > > -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 954 Jan 15 21:59 joe-2.8-2.info > -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 2765 Jan 15 21:59 joe-2.8-2.patch > -rw-r--r-- 1 stefanok admin 1189 Jun 9 14:24 joe-2.8-3.info > -rw-r--r-- 1 stefanok admin 2765 Apr 10 22:42 joe-2.8-3.patch > -rw-r--r-- 1 stefanok admin 1576 May 16 18:37 > lyx-1.1.6fix3-3.info > -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 773 Jan 15 21:59 > nano-1.0.6-1.info > -rw-r--r-- 1 stefanok admin 851 May 28 13:39 > nano-1.0.7-2.info > -rw-r--r-- 1 stefanok admin 908 Jun 9 14:24 nedit-5.2-2.info > -rw-r--r-- 1 stefanok admin 6456 Feb 24 12:02 > nedit-5.2-2.patch > -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 736 Jan 15 21:59 > nedit-5.2RC1-2.info > -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 6434 Jan 15 21:59 > nedit-5.2RC1-2.patch Just guessing here but looks like fink was installed with root originally and selfupdate set to your user account, as I said just guessing though. To install the newer version nedit just remove the older versions .info and patch and do "fink index" and "fink install nedit" should work then. > > Isn't fink supposed to overwrite older files when doing a selfupdate? Only if the older files have being removed from cvs. Matt _______________________________________________________________ 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
