Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate fails while trying to test fink 0.26.1

2007-03-13 Thread David Reiser
I know this message won't help much, because I can't give any hard details, but I've had problems with perlmod tests lately. I've had installs that fail a test, rerun the install and fail a test earlier in the test sequence, then rerun the install and all tests pass. I reran the installs

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate fails while trying to test fink 0.26.1

2007-03-13 Thread kinako
Hi, On Mar 13, 2007, at 9:41, Geoffrey Alan Washburn wrote: % sudo fink selfupdate why do you use `sudo` ? kinako at mac dot com - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate fails while trying to test fink 0.26.1

2007-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Alan Washburn
kinako wrote: Hi, On Mar 13, 2007, at 9:41, Geoffrey Alan Washburn wrote: % sudo fink selfupdate why do you use `sudo` ? Habit. Ideally it shouldn't make a difference. If I'm wrong let me know, but it would be kind of unfortunate if fink couldn't be installed by root. Not to