On Sunday, Sep 22, 2002, at 00:42 US/Pacific, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Did you already have a /sw/fink/10.1 directory before? Or does root 
> not have write and execute privileges in /sw/fink? This can only be 
> answered by looking ("ls -la") at your /sw/fink directory.

Thanks for your reply. I've tried this sequence many times, so I'm not 
sure what was there when I started, but this is what I have now:

% ls -la /sw/fink
total 88
drwxr-xr-x   17 ldavis  unknown    578 Sep 21 19:41 .
drwxr-xr-x   18 2011    unknown    612 Sep 20 23:17 ..
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ldavis  unknown   6148 Sep 21 19:41 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r--    1 ldavis  unknown     24 Sep 21 00:25 .cvsignore
drwxr-xr-x    7 ldavis  unknown    238 Sep  2 20:04 10.1
drwxr-xr-x    6 ldavis  unknown    204 Sep 21 18:17 10.2
drwxr-xr-x    5 ldavis  unknown    170 Sep 21 18:21 CVS
-rw-r--r--    1 ldavis  unknown   1252 Aug 20 16:06 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r--    1 root    unknown   1607 Apr 17 15:20 README
-rw-r--r--    1 root    unknown      6 Apr 17 15:20 VERSION
drwxr-xr-x  159 root    unknown   5406 Sep 21 20:25 debs
drwxr-xr-x    5 root    unknown    170 Sep 20 23:17 dists
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ldavis  unknown   4860 Aug 21 08:40 inject.pl
drwxr-xr-x    3 root    unknown    102 Sep 20 23:08 old
-rw-r--r--    1 root    unknown  10021 Sep 21 20:26 override
-rw-r--r--    1 ldavis  unknown      0 Aug 20 16:06 stamp-cvs-live
-rw-r--r--    1 root    unknown      0 Apr 17 15:20 stamp-rel-0.4.0

After

% sudo chown -R root /sw/fink/10*

I again get at step 5,

cannot rename /sw/fink/dists to /sw/fink/10.2 at 
/sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl line 120.

% ls -la /sw/fink
total 88
drwxr-xr-x   17 ldavis  unknown    578 Sep 21 19:41 .
drwxr-xr-x   18 2011    unknown    612 Sep 20 23:17 ..
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ldavis  unknown   6148 Sep 21 19:41 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r--    1 ldavis  unknown     24 Sep 21 00:25 .cvsignore
drwxr-xr-x    7 root    unknown    238 Sep  2 20:04 10.1
drwxr-xr-x    6 root    unknown    204 Sep 21 18:17 10.2
drwxr-xr-x    5 ldavis  unknown    170 Sep 21 18:21 CVS
-rw-r--r--    1 ldavis  unknown   1252 Aug 20 16:06 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r--    1 root    unknown   1607 Apr 17 15:20 README
-rw-r--r--    1 root    unknown      6 Apr 17 15:20 VERSION
drwxr-xr-x  161 root    unknown   5474 Sep 22 07:16 debs
drwxr-xr-x    5 root    unknown    170 Sep 20 23:17 dists
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ldavis  unknown   4860 Aug 21 08:40 inject.pl
drwxr-xr-x    3 root    unknown    102 Sep 20 23:08 old
-rw-r--r--    1 root    unknown  10021 Sep 22 07:17 override
-rw-r--r--    1 ldavis  unknown      0 Aug 20 16:06 stamp-cvs-live
-rw-r--r--    1 root    unknown      0 Apr 17 15:20 stamp-rel-0.4.0




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