Re: [Fink-beginners] Error running selfupdate

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

Ah. Try editing /sw/etc/fink.conf and change that to

RootMethod: none

Then see if you can unpack without using "--build-as-nobody"

On 1/29/13 9:30 AM, Wright, Herbert (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> RootMethod: sudo
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> Thanks,
> Herb Wright
> Contractor
> Desktop Group
> NCBI/NLM/NIH
> 
> wri...@nc...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Hansen <ale...@gm...>
> Organization: Fink Core Team
> Reply-To: fink beginners mailing list
> <Fin...@li...>
> Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:26 AM
> To: Herb Wright <wri...@nc...>
> Cc: fink beginners mailing list <Fin...@li...>
> Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Error running selfupdate
> 
>> On 1/29/13 8:29 AM, Wright, Herbert (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>>> Im actually logging in as root and running the fink commands.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Herb Wright
>>> Contractor
>>> Desktop Group
>>> NCBI/NLM/NIH
>>>
>>> wri...@nc...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, this is a known problem, and we're trying to get all of the
>> relevant data to reproduce and solve it.  One other potentially useful
>> piece of information would be the value of the RootMethod field in
>> /sw/etc/fink.conf.
>>
>> As a workaround while this gets sorted out, you can use "fink
>> --no-build-as-nobody ..." for selfupdates, builds, and installs.
>>
>> -- 
>> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
>> Fink User Liaison
>> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
> 


-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/