> Did you set proxies via "fink configure" ? Yes. When I manually download .info and .patch files for a particular package and then do fink install package, everything works automatically as it should.
> According to the Environment Variables section of "info cvs" for the version > which comes with Leopard (assuming that's what you're on, too), you might > want to set CVS_PROXY_PORT to match your http proxy: This doesn't seem to make any difference. What should CVSROOT be set as? I have no such variable by default. I have played around without apparent effect. s On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > I'm cc'ing the fink-users mailing list so that others can provide input or > benefit from the discussion. > > I don't recall that we ever came to a resolution on this. > > Did you set proxies via "fink configure" ? > > According to the Environment Variables section of "info cvs" for the version > which comes with Leopard (assuming that's what you're on, too), you might > want to set CVS_PROXY_PORT to match your http proxy: > > `$CVS_PROXY_PORT' > Used in client-server mode to set the port to use when accessing a > server via a web proxy, if the port is not specified in the > CVSROOT. Works with GSSAPI, and the password authentication > protocol. *note Remote repositories:: > > > (replacing the proxy stuff by those that are applicable to your network) > > On Friday 28 March 2008 03:42:44 pm Stephen M Jones wrote: >> Hi >> >> Did you or your correspondent ever resolve the rsync >> problem in the [Fink-beginners] thread below? I >> have exactly the same problem with rsync. I'm >> behind a firewall and I had a hunch that that is >> the problem but I've no idea how to proceed. >> >> There's a similar problem with selfupdate-cvs, as follows >> >> Now logging into the CVS server. When CVS asks you for a password, just >> press return (i.e. the password is empty). >> /usr/bin/su smj -c 'cvs >> -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/fink login' Logging >> in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/cvsroot/fink CVS >> password: >> cvs [login aborted]: connect to > >> >>>> On Mar 16, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >>>>> On Mar 16, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Andrew Friedman wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I recently reinstalled fink 0.28 on mac os 10.5.2 following the >>>>>> instructions on http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php >>>>>> >>>>>> The installation seemed to work. However, when I run 'fink >>>>>> selfupdate', I get the following connection error message: >>>>>> >>>>>> [Macintosh-4:~/fink-0.28.0] andrewfriedman% fink selfupdate >>>>>> rsync -az -q rsync://bru.be.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo// >>>>>> TIMESTAMP / >>>>>> sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp >>>>>> rsync: failed to connect to bru.be.eu.finkmirrors.net: Connection >>>>>> refused (61) >>>>>> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/ >>>>>> rsync-30/rsync/clientserver.c(94) >>>>>> >>>>>> I get similar messages when I try different mirrors. >>>>>> >>>>>> Do you have any suggestions? I am connecting from the UK, and I am a >>>>>> relative newcomer to both the UNIX terminal and to fink. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you in advance, >>>>>> >>>>>> Andrew Friedman >>>>> >>>>> Which mirrors have you tried? The bru. one has been reported as >>>>> being dodgy, but others work, at least here. > > >> fink.cvs.sourceforge.net(66.35.250.97):2401 failed: Connection refused ### >> execution of /usr/bin/su failed, exit code 1 >> Failed: Logging into the CVS server for anonymous read-only access failed. >> >> At the moment I'm getting round the inability to selfupdate >> by manually downloading the .info and .patch files for the >> packages I need: very slow. >> >> Thanks in advance >> Steve >> >> >> Thread from [Fink-beginners] >> >>> Are you going through a firewall by chance? >>> >>> On Mar 16, 2008, at 8:09 PM, Andrew Friedman wrote: >>>> Thanks for getting back to me. I reset 'fink configure' to the U.S. >>>> mirror and I still get the same error: >>>> >>>> rsync -az -q rsync://msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP / >>>> sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp >>>> rsync: failed to connect to msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net: Connection >>>> refused (61) >>>> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/ >>>> rsync-30/rsync/clientserver.c(94) >>>> >>>> It retries other mirrors, which give me similar error messages. >>>> >>>> Andrew > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > akh AT finkproject DOT org > Fink User Liaison and Documenter > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
