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

[Will O. <sp...@fo...>]

Whoops. :) It's been a long time since I've had to fudge with how fink 
operates.

The move out of the way error is out of the way, but I'm back to  the 
'\fink ... doesn't exist' error. This happens in rsync, CVS, and 
./inject.pl.

Will

On Aug 31, 2004, at 8.21 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
> --
> Alexander Hansen
> Fink Documentarian
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>
>
Will Oram
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spamguy21