Who owns the files? Have you tried sudo chown -R myname:mygroup /sw/fink
I'd guess that this was your problem all along. But, I may be wrong... Peter On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 11:44 PM, Alexander Meier wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users