Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails in OS X 10.9

2013-10-26 Thread Luigi Ernesto Zanotti
Thank you. I'll follow your advice in case I need some further package. Luigi Zanotti --- Prof. Luigi Ernesto Zanotti Physics Department "G. Occhialini" University of Milano Bicocca Piazza della Scienza 3. 20126 Milano Italy Tel. +39 02 6448 2413 E-Mail: luigi.zano..

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails in OS X 10.9

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/26/13 8:38 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 10/26/13 8:04 AM, Luigi Ernesto Zanotti wrote: >> Hello, >> this morning I upgraded my iMac to OS X 10.9. >> I then tried to run "fink selfupdate", but I got the following (too >> cryptic for me) error message: >> >> iMac-15:17:~> fink selfupdate >>

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails in OS X 10.9

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/26/13 8:04 AM, Luigi Ernesto Zanotti wrote: > Hello, > this morning I upgraded my iMac to OS X 10.9. > I then tried to run "fink selfupdate", but I got the following (too > cryptic for me) error message: > > iMac-15:17:~> fink selfupdate > Password: > Use of uninitialized value $darwin_osx in

[Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails in OS X 10.9

2013-10-26 Thread Luigi Ernesto Zanotti
Hello, this morning I upgraded my iMac to OS X 10.9. I then tried to run "fink selfupdate", but I got the following (too cryptic for me) error message: iMac-15:17:~> fink selfupdate Password: Use of uninitialized value $darwin_osx in numeric ne (!=) at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1363.

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2013-03-22 Thread Pete Pardoe
Alexander root# fink rebuild base-files Information about 7102 packages read in 0 seconds. The package 'base-files' will be built and installed. Reading build dependency for base-files-1.9.14-1... Reading dependency for base-files-1.9.14-1... Reading runtime dependency for base-files-1.9.14-1... R

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2013-03-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
I'm noticing that this is _not_, in fact, /usr/bin/gnutar. If you'd be so kind, try editing /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/PkgVersion.pm as a superuser and change the line which says $tarcommand = "$basepath/bin/tar $permissionflags $tarflags"; # Use Fink's GNU Tar if available to $tarcomma

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2013-03-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
RootMethod: none is supposed to be the appropriate setting if you're switching to root manually rather than letting fink do it for you. There have been some glitches, however. I'd be interested to see what happens if you change that to "su". That will tell fink to run "su" for itself. In that ca

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2013-03-21 Thread Pete Pardoe
Alexander RootMethod: none What are the possible values for this? Thanks, Pete On 21/03/2013 3:24 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Somebody reported using a similar method (actually, they replaced the > real /sw/bin/tar with a symbolic link to /usr/bin/gnutar, but that > should be the same net r

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2013-03-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
Somebody reported using a similar method (actually, they replaced the real /sw/bin/tar with a symbolic link to /usr/bin/gnutar, but that should be the same net result) and it worked for them. Unfortunately, since apparently nobody who is familiar with the guts of the fink code has been able to rep

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2013-03-21 Thread Pete Pardoe
Alexander That did not fix the problem. Every time I try to execute it (after su - to become root) the tar command fails wherever it appears, however using sudo to execute the command works. I prefer su - to sudo so if there is an easy solution I would love to have it. Thanks, Pete On 21/0

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2013-03-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 3/21/13 7:07 AM, Pete Pardoe wrote: > It appears to just sit there when it hits the tar command, it does not > die it just sits there and when I control C it, it reports the > following. I am able to execute the tar command manually so I am at a > complete loss as to why this will not comple

[Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2013-03-21 Thread Pete Pardoe
It appears to just sit there when it hits the tar command, it does not die it just sits there and when I control C it, it reports the following. I am able to execute the tar command manually so I am at a complete loss as to why this will not complete. Setting up fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.1

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2013-01-02 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 1/2/13 3:15 AM, Guy Kremnitzer wrote: > Hi, > fink selfupdate fails with the following error: > > cd src && make install > prefix='/sw/src/fink.build/root-libiconv-1.12-5/sw' > exec_prefix='/sw/src/fink.build/root-libiconv-1.12-5/sw' > libdir='/sw/src/fink.build/root-libiconv-1.12-5/sw/lib' > t

[Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2013-01-02 Thread Guy Kremnitzer
Hi, fink selfupdate fails with the following error: cd src && make install prefix='/sw/src/fink.build/root-libiconv-1.12-5/sw' exec_prefix='/sw/src/fink.build/root-libiconv-1.12-5/sw' libdir='/sw/src/fink.build/root-libiconv-1.12-5/sw/lib' test `ls -ld . | sed -e 's/^d\(.\).*/\1/'` = rw

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2012-10-23 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/23/12 9:16 AM, Richard Miles wrote: > fink selfupdate > Password: > > I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. > The > 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'richardmiles'. > After that, the core packages will be updated right away;

[Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2012-10-23 Thread Richard Miles
fink selfupdate Password: I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'richardmiles'. After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then update the other packages using commands

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2012-10-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/22/12 1:49 PM, Richard Miles wrote: > fink selfupdate > Password: > > I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. > The > 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'richardmiles'. > After that, the core packages will be updated right away;

[Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Miles
fink selfupdate Password: I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'richardmiles'. After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then update the other packages using commands

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2012-10-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/21/12 10:07 AM, Richard Miles wrote: > I made a copy of the contents of > http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fink/dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/base/fink-10.6.info?revision=1.37 > It said that there were unnecessary newlines in the contents, so I did not > know how to fix that? > I

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2012-10-21 Thread Richard Miles
I made a copy of the contents of http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fink/dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/base/fink-10.6.info?revision=1.37 It said that there were unnecessary newlines in the contents, so I did not know how to fix that? On Oct 21, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2012-10-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/21/12 8:46 AM, Richard Miles wrote: > bash-3.2$ fink selfupdate > Password: > > I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. > The > 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'richardmiles'. > After that, the core packages will be updated ri

[Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2012-10-21 Thread Richard Miles
bash-3.2$ fink selfupdate Password: I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'richardmiles'. After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then update the other packages using

Re: [Fink-users] Fink selfupdate fails since sometime after April 30, 2012

2012-05-03 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 5/3/12 9:52 PM, Doug Wade wrote: > Hi > > Usually when I see a problem like this somebody has already posted > something to the list and I just patiently wait. This time I have not > seen anything on the list but it looks like a server issue and > not something at my end. > Doing a selfupdate (

[Fink-users] Fink selfupdate fails since sometime after April 30, 2012

2012-05-03 Thread Doug Wade
Hi Usually when I see a problem like this somebody has already posted something to the list and I just patiently wait. This time I have not seen anything on the list but it looks like a server issue and not something at my end. Doing a selfupdate (rsync) I get: rsync -az -v rsync://distfiles.m

Re: [Fink-users] Fink selfupdate fails

2011-12-03 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/2/11 5:34 PM, Sam Seaver wrote: > I just did a `sudo fink selfupdate` (you don't need to prefix 'fink' with 'sudo') and it failed trying to run > pod2man, which seems strange: > > ./install.sh /sw/src/fink.build/root-fink-0.31.5-51/sw > i386Cr

[Fink-users] Fink selfupdate fails

2011-12-03 Thread Sam Seaver
I just did a `sudo fink selfupdate` and it failed trying to run pod2man, which seems strange: ./install.sh /sw/src/fink.build/root-fink-0.31.5-51/sw i386Creating directories...Copying files...Creating man pages from POD... fink-scanpackages.8./install.sh: line 130: /usr/bin/pod2man: Permission den

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails / tests fail.

2011-11-01 Thread Moritz Kaiser
Hi Alexander, I think about evaluating the mount points. Just calling /sbin/mount already reveals all mountpoints having the noowners flag set. The difficulty is now to find out if some parts of the tree have been moved over to a partition with this flag set. One might have to walk the whole tree

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails / tests fail.

2011-11-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/1/11 6:49 AM, Moritz Kaiser wrote: > Alexander, > > you were right. I missed the fact that a year ago, I moved only > /sw/src to another partition to save space. Hence I didn't think > about the possibility when browsing the FAQ. The funny thing

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails / tests fail.

2011-11-01 Thread Moritz Kaiser
Alexander, you were right. I missed the fact that a year ago, I moved only /sw/src to another partition to save space. Hence I didn't think about the possibility when browsing the FAQ. The funny thing is, that it used to work, when that disk was attached with Firewire. After reattaching it via USB

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails / tests fail.

2011-10-31 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/11 12:03 PM, Moritz Kaiser wrote: > Hi! > > since 3 days fink selfupdate fails unexpectedly during tests. > System: 10.6.8 on Intel. > > I have no clues where to look for the cause. It seems to have sth. > to do with chown, but the binary

[Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails / tests fail.

2011-10-31 Thread Moritz Kaiser
Hi! since 3 days fink selfupdate fails unexpectedly during tests. System: 10.6.8 on Intel. I have no clues where to look for the cause. It seems to have sth. to do with chown, but the binary is still in place: moritz-kaisers-computer:.Verhauverhau moritzkaiser$ which chown /usr/sbin/chown So it

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails on PPC G5 OSX-10.5.6

2009-04-03 Thread Alexander Hansen
For the nonce, I've put a current snapshot up at http://akhmac.blogdns.net/~hansen/finksnap.tar.gz Basically that contains all of the .info and .patch files from stable and unstable. The easiest way to use it is to download the tarball, copy it into /sw/fink/10.4, and unpack it. I don't have a

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails on PPC G5 OSX-10.5.6

2009-04-02 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Apr 2, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Monic Polynomial wrote: On 02/04/2009, at 17:53, Robert Black wrote: I reported this problem several months (and at least 3 System Updates) ago, and it still persists. Are you guys ever going to fix the CVS server, or is this only a problem for Mac PPC users, so y

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails on PPC G5 OSX-10.5.6

2009-04-02 Thread Monic Polynomial
On 02/04/2009, at 17:53, Robert Black wrote: > I reported this problem several months (and at least 3 System Updates) > ago, and it still persists. Are you guys ever going to fix the CVS > server, or is this only a problem for Mac PPC users, so you feel free > to ignore it because Mac abandoned PPC

[Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails on PPC G5 OSX-10.5.6

2009-04-02 Thread Robert Black
I reported this problem several months (and at least 3 System Updates) ago, and it still persists. Are you guys ever going to fix the CVS server, or is this only a problem for Mac PPC users, so you feel free to ignore it because Mac abandoned PPC architecture? apollo18:~ rblack$ fink selfupd

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2007-09-11 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: > Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > >> Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: >> >>> Any suggestions? >>> >>> > > >>> ./Command/failure..ok 1/0 >>> >>> ./Command/failure..NOK 24/0# Failed test at >>> ./Command/failure.t

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2007-08-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: > Any suggestions? > > --- > ~ idoneus-computer-507>sudo fink selfupdate > Password: > rsync -az -q rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP > /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp > I will no

[Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2007-08-26 Thread Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
Any suggestions? --- ~ idoneus-computer-507>sudo fink selfupdate Password: rsync -az -q rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails in test phase

2007-01-25 Thread Daniel Macks
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 09:07:17PM +0100, Rolf Marvin B?e Lindgren wrote: > > On 25. jan. 2007, at 2:58, Jacques Distler wrote: > > > Dave M. speculates that the problem may lie with File::Path. I > > have 1.08; the Fink test script was tested with 1.06. > > I can confirm that I too have 1.0

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails in test phase

2007-01-25 Thread Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
On 25. jan. 2007, at 2:58, Jacques Distler wrote: > Dave M. speculates that the problem may lie with File::Path. I > have 1.08; the Fink test script was tested with 1.06. I can confirm that I too have 1.08. -- Rolf Lindgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails in test phase

2007-01-25 Thread Jacques Distler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 25, 2007, at 6:41 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > That test is _not_ supposed to fail, and I haven't been able to > reproduce it, either from an upgrade from 0.26.0 or a downgrade from a > top-of-tree CVS fink. Did either of you overwrite your

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails in test phase

2007-01-25 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 1/25/07, Jacques Distler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Jan 25, 2007, at 6:41 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > > That test is _not_ supposed to fail, and I haven't been able to > > reproduce it, either from an upgrade from 0.26.0 or a downgra

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails in test phase

2007-01-25 Thread Jacques Distler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 25, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 1/25/07, Jacques Distler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm running the latest Perl 5.8.8 in /usr/local/ >> >> Dave M. speculates that the problem may lie with File::Path. I have >> 1.08; the F

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails in test phase

2007-01-25 Thread Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
On 25. jan. 2007, at 1:41, Alexander Hansen wrote: > That test is _not_ supposed to fail, and I haven't been able to > reproduce it, either from an upgrade from 0.26.0 or a downgrade from a > top-of-tree CVS fink. Did either of you overwrite your > system-installed Perl? I most certainly have.

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails in test phase

2007-01-25 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 1/25/07, Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23. jan. 2007, at 5:46, Jacques Distler wrote: > > > . > > ./Command/failure..ok 1/0 > > ./Command/failure..NOK 24/0# Failed test at > > ./Command/failure.t line 85. > > # '' > > #

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails in test phase

2007-01-25 Thread Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
On 23. jan. 2007, at 5:46, Jacques Distler wrote: > . > ./Command/failure..ok 1/0 > ./Command/failure..NOK 24/0# Failed test at > ./Command/failure.t line 85. > # '' > # != > # '0' > ./Command/failure..ok 41/0# Looks l

[Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails in test phase

2007-01-23 Thread Jacques Distler
I'm running a late-model Fink installation on MacOSX 10.4.8 % fink --version Package manager version: 0.26.0 Distribution version: 0.8.1.rsync powerpc Running % fink selfupdate produces: . . . ./Command/failure..ok 1/0 ./Command/failure

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails on 10.4.2

2005-07-14 Thread Mike Zulauf
On Jul 14, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Jul 14, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Mike Zulauf wrote: Hi all, I just updated one of my two machines to 10.4.2. Now I get a failure when I attempt to selfupdate: % fink selfupdate Password: rsync -az -q rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/f

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails on 10.4.2

2005-07-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Jul 14, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Mike Zulauf wrote:Hi all,I just updated one of my two machines to 10.4.2.  Now I get a failure when I attempt to selfupdate:% fink selfupdatePassword:rsync -az -q  rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmpUse of uninitialized value in

Re: [Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails on 10.4.2

2005-07-14 Thread Mike Zanker
On 14/7/05 20:51, Mike Zulauf wrote: > I just updated one of my two machines to 10.4.2. Now I get a failure > when I attempt to selfupdate: I'm afraid I can't offer any advice but it's working fine for me with Xcode 2.1 on 10.4.2. Mike. This message has been scanned for viruses by MailContro

[Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails on 10.4.2

2005-07-14 Thread Mike Zulauf
Hi all, I just updated one of my two machines to 10.4.2. Now I get a failure when I attempt to selfupdate: % fink selfupdate Password: rsync -az -q rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP / sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink

[Fink-users] fink selfupdate fails

2004-09-21 Thread Niklas Saers
When trying to update fink, I get the following error. Any suggestions on how I should go about to solve this? Cheers Nik # fink selfupdate I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then upda