On 05/31/2016 10:29 AM, Jess H. Brewer wrote:
> On 05/31/2016 08:47 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> One question on the login method:  is that a terminal logged in to a
>>>> root account, or accessed via “sudo -s” or “su”, etc. ?
>>>>
>>>> —akh
>>>
>>> # su -
>>>
>>> (When I'm root, I want to stay root.  :-)
>>>
>>> -- Jess
>>
>> I don’t know if it will make a difference, but you might try setting
>>
>> RootMethod: none
>>
>> in /sw/etc/fink.conf if you haven’t done that already.—akh
>
> It was already set.  Shall I try something different?
>
> I seem to be able to "chip away" at updating from source: although just
> running # fink update-all  fails after a few packages, it does update a
> few -- less each time I run it -- until it fails immediately; then I
> "manually" update a few from the list and try again.  Then update-all
> gets a few more....  I've done this before; eventually I get up to date
> (or almost so) and then I seem to be able to go back to normal.  I
> wonder if the failure on downloading binaries is due to some specific
> package needing updating?
>
> Cheers -- Jess

Hmmm, a new(?) glitch -- I can't seem to get past this error:
_______________________________________________________________________

The following packages must be temporarily removed, but there are no 
.debs to restore them from:

   libev4 libev4

Exiting with failure.
________________________________________________________________________

(Yes, it lists the same package twice.) ????

Cheers -- Jess


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