Re: [Fink-users] failed fink selfupdate-git (High Sierra10.13.6)

[Scott H. <sha...@us...>]

For some reason it thinks that portaudio2.patch has been modified outside of git.  For whatever reason, I would try moving it to your desktop and then attempting to do another self update.

-Scott

> On Jul 16, 2026, at 9:55 PM, a_sk--- via Fink-users <fin...@li...> wrote:
> 
> 'fink selfupdate-cvs' or 'fink selfupdate --method=rsync' if you are changing your update method. 
> 
> 
> I will now run the git command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. The 'su' command will be used to run the git
> command as the user 'akios'. After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then update the other
> packages using commands like 'fink update-all'.
> 
> /usr/bin/su akios -c '/usr/bin/git fetch --quiet origin'
> /usr/bin/su akios -c '/usr/bin/git checkout --quiet master'
> /usr/bin/su akios -c '/usr/bin/git merge --ff-only --quiet origin/master'
> error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
> 	10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/sound/portaudio2.patch
> Please move or remove them before you merge.
> Aborting
> ### execution of /usr/bin/su failed, exit code 1
> Failed: Updating using git failed. Check the error messages above.
> 
> So far, there were never such errors (on this mac OS) How can we do to cope with it for novice..