Neal, Somebody had a problem that looks vaguely similar to yours, and he solved it by running the postinstall script manually.
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 15:18, Neal A. Crocker wrote: > >Hi, > >I just reran this update-fink.sh script from fink-0.11-cvs in order to see if > >something had changed. I ran it while I had an old pre-jaguar > >distribution in /sw, so no /sw/10.2 yet. After a while, I got the > >following output: > > > >Unpacking replacement fink ... > >Setting up fink (0.11.0.cvs-20021101.1541) ... > >Checking system... powerpc-apple-darwin6.1 > >This system is supported and tested. > > I recall seeing the above output > > >Needs an update... > >sed > >'s|fink.sourceforge.net/bindist|us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download|g' > >< /sw/etc/apt/sources.list > /sw/etc/apt/sources.list.old > >cat /sw/etc/apt/sources.list.old >> /sw/etc/apt/sources.list > >rm /sw/etc/apt/sources.list.old > > I don't recall seeing the above, but my looking at my > /sw/etc/apt/sources.list file indicates that it took place: > [~]% cat /sw/etc/apt/sources.list > <snip> > deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download release main crypto > <snip> > deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download current main crypto > > > > NOTE: You have fink set up to use CVS for updates, and with this > > version of fink, the CVS setup has slightly changed. After fink has > > finished setting up, you should immediately run 'fink selfupdate-cvs', > > 'fink scanpackages', and then 'apt-get update' in order to > > complete your upgrade. > > > > mkdir -p /sw/fink/10.2/local/main/finkinfo > > chown -R costabel /sw/fink/10.2 > > mkdir /sw/fink/10.2/CVS > > cp /sw/fink/10.1/CVS/Root /sw/fink/10.2/CVS > > chown -R costabel /sw/fink/10.2/CVS > > ln -s /sw/fink/10.2 /sw/fink/dists > > > > > > Your Fink installation in '/sw' was updated with a new fink package. > > > >You can clearly see how the new directory structure is created. > >When you run this script, don't you get this kind of messages? > > I don't recall seeing the above output regarding /sw/fink/10.2 the > first time I ran ./update-fink.sh, but I wasn't paying too much > attention. However, the fact that I don't have a /sw/fink/10.2 > directory suggests that something went wrong before or during that > process. Rerunning ./update-fink.sh doesn't produce that output. I > should mention that fink now shows that I have fink 0.11.0 installed: > > [fink-0.11.0]% fink list fink > Information about 1452 packages read in 2 seconds. > > i fink 0.11.0-1 The Fink package manager > > Perhaps I should modify the ./update-fink.sh to completely rebuild > fink (using the command "fink rebuild fink"), rather than simply > installing it (as does the currently used "fink install fink" > command), which does nothing if the package is already installed? > More generally, if I want to retry the 10.2 update from a pure 10.1 > state, what would I have to do to get back to that state? Reinstall > fink 0.10.0? > > Thanks, > Neal. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm > Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
