On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:47:56PM -0600, Walter Hofmeister wrote: > On 3/17/05 2:18 PM, "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Walter Hofmeister wrote: > >> > >> I ran the selfupdate command a few days ago and now whenever I try > >> to do anything with Fink, I get: > >> > >> Failed: The package full name 'fondu-030428-1' is not allowed to be > >> used more than once. at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Package.pm line 142. > >> > >> Followed by the prompt at the terminal. It does not want to do > >> anything now except give the above warning. It looks to me that > >> in the selfupdate process, something has become corrupted. I tried > >> looking at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Package.pm line 142, but it is a Perl > >> script file and does not contain a list of files. > > > > try > > > > sudo rm -rf /sw/fink/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils/fondu.info > > > > and then do another selfupdate---that's the most likely thing to be > > corrupted. > > I tried your suggestion and it attempted to do a selfupdate but then > when it tried to update the database, it gave the same warning. It then did > the same as before (just gives the warning).
If you rm that file, does 'fink index' work? If so, then we have a problem with that file on the server. That's a new error in fink that protects against formerly-silently-broken behavior, but looks like the wording of it isn't so clear. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
