A while ago I had a disk failure through which I lost several months worth of stuff in my home directory. Since then, if I try to run "fink selfupdate", what I get is the following:
> Your Fink installation is set up to update package descriptions > directly from CVS. Do you want to use this setup and update now? [Y/n] > > I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package > discriptions. The "su" command will be used to run the cvs command as > the user "sra". After that, the core packages will be updated right > away; you should then update the other packages using commands like > 'fink update-all'. > > su sra -c cvs -z3 -d -P > > cvs update: could not open directly /Users/sra/.cvspass: No such file > or directory > cvs [update aborted]: use "cvs login" to log in first > ### su failed, exit code 1 > Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. The reason for this is presumably the fact that I had installed fink with cvs update during the period for which my home directory is now unrecoverable, including magic incantations to cvs. How do I recover from this state? Apparently I can't just re-install the current version of fink over my existing installation. Since my /sw tree is still intact, and I don't want to rebuild all of that stuff except where it's been updated, I don't want to start over from scratch. What can I do? -- Steve Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
