What happened is that something got changed on the offending files (owner?) and fink won't remove it. You can go ahead and remove manually any of the offending .info or .patch files and do the selfupdate-cvs again. Fink should then create files with the correct owner/permissions.
On Monday 24 June 2002 10:46, Joseph Slater wrote: > When ever I do a fink selfupdate, I get the following error: > cvs update: move away dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome/mc-4.5.54-3.info; > it is in the way > C dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome/mc-4.5.54-3.info > > Along with a few (hundred or so?) others that look the same. The only > way for me to do an update is to remove these directories. This doesn't > happen on my other machine. What's wrong, and how can I fix it? > Thanks in advance, > Joe > __________________________________________________ > Joseph C. Slater, PhD, PE, Associate Professor > Dept. of Mechanical and Materials Engg, Wright State University > 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH 45435 > Phone: (+1) 937-775-5085, Fax: (+1) 937-775-5009 > http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~jslater > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: > ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users -- -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
