Re: [Fink-beginners] fink update-cvs doesn't work for me...

[Grant Jacobs]

Title: Re: [Fink-beginners] fink update-cvs doesn't work for

Sorry to bother you again - net traffic is preventing me from getting the help pages off sourceforge:

At 11:08 PM -0800 21/1/03, Ben Hines wrote:

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 04:42 PM, Grant Jacobs wrote:

Can't locate Fink/Services.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /System/Library/Perl/darwin /System/Library/Perl /Library/Perl/darwin /Library/Perl /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/darwin /Network/Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl .) at /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl line 30.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl line 31.
dpkg: error processing fink (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 fink
### dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package fink-0.11.1-1

You probably aren't properly sourcing /sw/bin/init.sh in your .cshrc (or .tcshrc). Step 3: http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php

OK...

Also, if you are updating a 10.1 fink install to 10.2, you should be doing this instead:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/10.2-upgrade.php

Thanks for the tips. In practice the download actually gives you a file named: apt-shlibs_0.5_win-powerpc.deb

rather than: apt-shlibs_0.5.4-7_darwin-powerpc.deb

I took the liberty of re-naming it (after checking that source-forge does think that its delivering me the Darwin file...) After that things seem to work fine until I got to the final step on the help page, running fink selfupdate, which outputs:

su gjacobs -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P'
? debs
? old
? override
? stamp-rel-0.3.0
? stamp-rel-0.3.1
? 10.1/stable/crypto/finkinfo/curl-ssl-7.9-1.info
? 10.1/stable/crypto/finkinfo/egd-0.8-1.info
? 10.1/stable/crypto/finkinfo/egd-0.8-1.patch
? 10.1/stable/crypto/finkinfo/gnupg-1.0.6-7.info
? 10.1/stable/crypto/finkinfo/gnupg-1.0.6-7.patch

[snip]

? 10.1/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/windowmaker-0.70.0-3.patch
? 10.1/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/xfce-3.8.10-1.info
? 10.1/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/xfce-3.8.10-1.patch
? 10.2/local
? 10.2/stable
? dists/local
? dists/stable
cvs server: Updating .
U .cvsignore
U ChangeLog
U README
U VERSION
U inject.pl
U stamp-cvs-live
cvs server: Updating 10.1
cvs server: Updating 10.1/stable
cvs server: Updating 10.1/stable/crypto
cvs server: Updating 10.1/stable/crypto/finkinfo

[snip]

cvs server: Updating 10.1/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-system
cvs server: Updating 10.1/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm
cvs server: Updating 10.2
U 10.2/.cvsignore
cvs update: in directory 10.2/stable:
cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
cvs server: Updating 10.2/stable
cvs update: cannot write 10.2/stable/.cvsignore: Permission denied
cvs update: in directory 10.2/stable/crypto:
cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
cvs server: Updating 10.2/stable/crypto
cvs update: cannot write 10.2/stable/crypto/.cvsignore: Permission denied

cvs [update aborted]: cannot make directory 10.2/stable/crypto/finkinfo: No such file or directory
### execution of su failed, exit code 1
Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.

This happens regardless of whether I am root or gjacobs (my user). I've tried manually creating this directory, only to get further silliness. I think I need a 'fink fix-permissions' :-) Seriously, er, advice? Can it and start over?

Perhaps a future version of fink might acquire enough smarts to know when it can't do a self update and inform the user that they ought to do a manual update, ideally with a reference to where the instructions are? Most users after all will just type fink selfupdate and expect something sensible to happen. All this would require is for fink to first download a small file with OS versions and the associated details before embarking on anything else - ?

While I think about it, testing for an environment variable indicating that /sw/bin/init has been run and warning users if it hasn't would also help (I do exactly this for some software I write for a local academic; it also checks the right shell is being used, etc.)

Finally! - to start over, I presume you just can the contents of /sw and begin again...? (I know this is an FAQ, but I can't get pages of sourceforge at present.)

Grant

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