Alexander, I did as you suggested and moved dists/ to dists.old/ then I ran fink selfupdate again and at first it seemed to work.... but.... there appeared another error message... hmmm it seems like I could handle that one myself by removin the VERSION file in the /sw/fink/ folder now it seems to work again...
so I'm happy for now, although I still have the strange feeling that this wasn't the best solution since I still get these messages: cvs -z3 update -d -P ? .DS_Store ? stamp-rel-0.3.1 ? stamp-rel-0.3.2a ? VERSION cvs server: Updating . cvs update: move away ./VERSION; it is in the way C VERSION but since the selfupdate works they could also be normal messages that I just never was aware of before... *g* Thanks alex On Freitag, Februar 1, 2002, at 03:24 Uhr, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
