[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:26:04 +0100
> From: Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Chezmoi
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Fink-users] All installs failing!
>
> Rich Gronostajski wrote:
> []
> > typical error message:
> >
> > [gronos:/Users/richardg] root# fink install dillo
> > Reading package info...
> > No package name in /sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/apt-0.5.4-1.info
> > No package name in /sw/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/finkinfo/base-files-1.5-1.info
> [etc]
>
> Rich,
>
> this sounds already pretty evil. When you look at these info files with
> emacs or something, do they appear normal? Somehow fink doesn't parse
> these files correctly.
> Were there any unusual messages when you ran bootstrap? Or when you
> "fink selfupdate-cvs"?
>
> --
> Martin
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:40:14 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Fink-users] All installs failing!
> From: "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Can you do a 'fink selfupdate'?
>
> --
> 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
>

Selfupdate doesn't help.  Always updates but doesn't change anything.  Every new
install fails with the same message because tar doesn't create correct files.

--
Richard M. Gronostajski
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry
State University of New York at Buffalo
140 Farber Hall
Buffalo, NY 14214

Phone: 716-829-3471
Fax: 716-829-2725
Webpage: http://elegans.swmed.edu/Worm_labs/Gronostajski



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