At 11:21 Uhr -0500 01.02.2002, Stephen R. Anderson wrote: >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?
Try this command: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/fink login Then just press Return when it asks you for your password. Afterwards, selfupdate should work again, I hope. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
