So you're saying that if you delete all of the .info and .patch files and do a selfupdate-cvs you can't get it to work?
If that's the case, try this: rename (sudo mv) /sw/fink/dists to /sw/fink/dists.old , or something like that. Then do the selfupdate-cvs again. A directory tree with appropriate permissions and containing the .info and .patch files should be generated (I've tried this out before). If that works, then before you delete dists.old, you may want to copy any .deb files under dists.old to their appropriate locations under dists . On 2/1/02 7:16 AM, "Alexander Meier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > whenever I try to do a: > fink selfupdate > via cvs, I get the following error messages: > > cvs update: move away whatever/the/directory/to/the/file/is.info; > it is in the way > cvs update: move away whatever/the/directory/to/the/file/is.patch; > it is in the way > > this happens on all!! files installed through fink. > if I remove all these files, nothing changes... ;-( > > any ideas? > > alex > > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, LDX Collaboration MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users