Re: [Fink-devel] Fink errors out after "cvs up" in /sw/fink (problem scanning gmp.info)

[Max H. <ma...@qu...>]

Am 22.12.2006 um 07:52 schrieb Martin Costabel:

> Max Horn wrote:
>> For some reasons I didn't update my Fink installation for some time.
>> So today I run a "cvs up" in /sw/fink, then sudo fink list -o
>>
>> This resulted in the following error:
>>
>> Failed: Error performing percent expansion: unknown % expansion or
>
> I don't think running older versions of fink was ever guaranteed to
> work.

I beg your pardon? It's an absolute requirement for being able to  
upgrade an existing Fink installation, and one of the reasons InfoN  
was introduced.

> Any reason why you don't "fink selfupdate" instead of "cvs up", or
> at least "fink update fink"?

The result would have been the same.


> Running "cvs up" has the additional drawback - even if your fink isn't
> out of date - that if you do "fink list" afterwards you will be  
> greeted
> by the anal warning "Your index is out of date, and fink has suddenly
> developed a reticence to run itself through sudo, so it can't  
> update the
> index, sorry. Please wait 2 minutes while I am sulking" or  
> something to
> that effect.

Well the first command I run after "cvs up" was "sudo fink list -o",  
so no problem there. What failed was updating the index; the very  
same would have been the case if I had run "fink selfupdate", which  
essentially also run "cvs up", "fink index", and then updates some  
select packages.

Anyway, we discussed this on #fink last night, and it seems it'll  
require a new InfoN versions, and also a new fink release.


Cheers,
Max