Gents, ever since I upgraded to 10.5 on my PPC G5, I have used a completely new installation of fink, not simply the 10.4 version from 10.4.11. This newer fink 1) does not selfupdate and 2) does not use the unstable tree. The error is below. Please do not suggest anything in the FAQ, as I have already tried all the suggestions offered. There have been 2 system updates since the initial installation, and I haven't yet been able to do an update. I am behind a firewall, but I do not administer that machine and I do not have an account on it. I haven't needed one up to this point.
Any suggestions? Robert A. Black Research Meteorologist 4301 Rickenbacker Cswy. NOAA/AOML/HRD Miami, FL 33149-1026 Ph: (305) 361-4314 FAX: (305) 361-4528 (NEW) E-Mail: [email protected] (Any opinions expressed are mine alone, not NOAA policy) /Users/rblack apollo18:~ rblack$ fink configure Password: OK, I'll ask you some questions and update the configuration file in '/ sw/etc/fink.conf'. In what additional directory should Fink look for downloaded tarballs? [/] / Which directory should Fink use to build packages? (If you don't know what this means, it is safe to leave it at its default.) [] Should Fink try to download pre-compiled packages from the binary distribution if available? [Y/n] y The "unstable" tree contains many packages not present in the "stable" tree and often has newer versions of those that are present. All package updates are tested in "unstable" before being approved for "stable", so "unstable" gets new versions and bug-fixes sooner. However, that means packages in "unstable" can change rapidly and are occasionally broken temporarily. In addition, packages from the "unstable" tree are less likely to be available from bindist servers immediately (if at all). The "unstable" tree does not appear to be activated in your fink now. Do you want to activate it? [y/N] n (1) Quiet (do not show download statistics) (2) Low (do not show tarballs being expanded) (3) Medium (will show almost everything) (4) High (will show everything) How verbose should Fink be? [2] Proxy/Firewall settings Enter the URL of the HTTP proxy to use, or 'none' for no proxy. The URL should start with http:// and may contain username, password, and/or port specifications. Note that this value will be visible to all users on your computer. Example, http://username:passw...@hostname:port Your proxy: [172.16.100.247:80] Use the same proxy server for FTP connections? [y/N] y Use passive mode FTP transfers (to get through a firewall)? [Y/n] y Mirror selection All mirrors are set. Do you want to change them? [y/N] n Writing updated configuration to '/sw/etc/fink.conf'... apollo18:~ rblack$ fink selfupdate Fink has the capability to run the CVS commands as a normal user. That has some advantages - it uses that user's CVS settings files and allows the package descriptions to be edited and updated without becoming root. Please specify the user login name that should be used: [rblack] For Fink developers only: Enter your SourceForge login name to set up full CVS access. Other users, just press return to set up anonymous read-only access. [anonymous] Checking to see if we can use hard links to merge the existing tree. Please ignore errors on the next few lines. 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 rblack -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 fink.cvs.sourceforge.net(216.34.181.110):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. apollo18:~ rblack$ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
