Re: [Fink-beginners] Reverting to Old fink Fails

[Alexander K. H. <ha...@ld...>]

On Aug 30, 2004, at 10:45 PM, Will Oram wrote:

> selfupdate-cvs was met with this error:
>
> ln 'Makefile.in.in' 
> '/sw/fink.tmp/fink/\/fink-0.22.1-1/update/Makefile.in.in'
> Failed: Can't move "/sw/fink" out of the way
>
>

This is  a separate problem that is covered in the FAQ:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#cant-move-fink


> On Aug 30, 2004, at 10.26 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 21:39, Will Oram wrote:
>>> I had the documented problem with fink .22.0 not updating through
>>> rsync. I tried installing .22.1 through the first suggestion (fink
>>> install fink ...), but got this:
>>>
>>> Failed: directory \/fink-0.22.1-1 doesn't exist, check the package
>>> description
>>>
>>> This error was repeated for the other suggestion (downloading the 
>>> .22.1
>>> package). What to do?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Will Oram
>>> spamguy ^^AT^^ foxchange.com // william.oram ^^AT^^ cwru.edu // AIM
>>> spamguy21
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You might try switching to CVS updating temporarily, since I believe
>> that was unaffected.
>>
>> -- 
>> Alexander K. Hansen <ha...@ld...>
>>
>>
> Will Oram
> spamguy ^^AT^^ foxchange.com // william.oram ^^AT^^ cwru.edu // AIM 
> spamguy21
>
>
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