On 12/12/2012 10:15 AM, David Lowe wrote:
>> OK, I'll ask you some questions and update the configuration file in 
>> '/sw/etc/fink.conf'.
>>
>> In what additional directory should Fink look for downloaded tarballs? 
>> [~/Downloads]
>
>> $ ls ~/Downloads/f*
>> /Users/doctorjlowe/Downloads/freeciv-2.3.3.tar.bz2
>
>> [doctorjlowe@David-Lowes-MacBook-Pro:~]$ fink update freeciv
>> Scanning package description files..........
>> Information about 6483 packages read in 9 seconds.
>> The following package will be installed or updated:
>>   freeciv
>> curl --connect-timeout 30 -f -L -A 'fink/0.34.4' -O 
>> http://distfiles.sjc.ca.us.finkmirrors.net/freeciv-2.3.3.tar.bz2
>
>       Is there some semantics i've got wrong here?  As i understand it, fink 
> should just use the tar ball i already have, right?  This is a freshly self 
> updated fink on 10.7.5.

Most likely, ~/Downloads has permissions that the fink-bld user can not 
read.

ls -ld ~/Downloads

should show at least "drwxr-xr-x" (mode 755) for that directory to work. 
705 will probably work too.  Just drwx------ will fail.

Hanspeter


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