Robert Black wrote: > 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. Which wouldn't work well in any case. Did the 10.4 version selfupdate properly before you updated the OS? > This newer fink 1) does not selfupdate and 2) does not use > the unstable tree. The two aren't directly connected. > 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$ > > > There's not much that can be configured via fink here.
I got rid of our cvs packages on Leopard because Xcode comes with the most recent version (and I think it actually works better). Supposedly Leopard's cvs has proxy support built in to it, but I don't know about that for a fact. cvs-proxy is still available in the 10.5 binary distribution, so the instructions in http://www.finkproject.org/faq/usage-fink.php?phpLang=en#firewalled-cvs may still apply. However, I don't know how well they work on Leopard, as I don't have a firewall. I suggested a FAQ entry because a good fraction of the time time when users say they "tried everything in the FAQ", they did not, in fact, try _everything_ that was germane to their issue. Moreover, saying "I tried everything"is less helpful for diagnostic purposes than listing the specific things that you tried. If you _did_ try cvs-proxy, and it didn't work, then the best thing I can come up with is to try to find what kind of proxy support (if any) is built into Apple's cvs. If there isn't any, then I can pull the cvs-proxy package back out of retirement and maybe someone else can actually figure out how to update it to work. I only maintain cvs because it was an easy update while I was still green at maintaining packages. -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
