On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Alexander Hansen wrote: > I believe that this is just a coincidence: I've gotten the same error > message running selfupdate-cvs from my home directory, which has no CVS > directories in it. I've always attributed it to a busy server.
I think you're wrong, the CVS/Root file, if it already existed from a different archive, would set an incorrect value for CVSROOT. It would be a correctable problem, by explicitly using the -D option to cvs, so as to force the correct CVSROOT regardless of the value in CVS/Root. If I get an extra moment today, I'll post some diffs to prove this. > > On 6/9/03 9:55 AM, "Skip Montanaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I don't know if this is a known issue or not, but I pass it along in case it > > needs to be squeezed into the docs somewhere. "man fink" didn't show it as > > a problem and I didn't see anything obvious in the bug tracker. > > > > When you get fink from CVS, you have to execute "fink selfupdate-cvs" from a > > directory which does not have a CVS directory for some other project. The > > result, while benign, is failure: > > > > % fink selfupdate-cvs > > sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate-cvs > > > > I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. > > The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'skip'. > > After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then > > update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. > > > > su skip -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P' > > cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if > > any) > > ### execution of su failed, exit code 1 > > Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. > > > > The error message gives you no indication as to the real cause of the > > problem. Switch to a non-CVS directory and you're golden: > > > > % fink selfupdate-cvs > > sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate-cvs > > > > I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. > > The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'skip'. > > After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then > > update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. > > > > su skip -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P' > > ? 10.1 > > ? stamp-rel-0.4.0 > > cvs server: Updating . > > cvs server: Updating 10.2 > > cvs server: Updating 10.2/stable > > ... > > > > FYI. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
