FWIW, I get this "it is in the way" problem quite frequently. Changing 
owners doesn't help. Removing the old .info and .patch files works one time 
but on future selfupdates the problem recurs. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mat

--On Friday, February 1, 2002 11:56 PM +0900 Peter O'Gorman 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>
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