My fink is broken...
I discovered this when trying futilely to get fink to install system-xfree86. My fink produces a "missing directory" error whenever it tries to self-update, which means it can't see or install any packages. The terminal output is below.
My UNIX knowledge is rudimentary (though growing) and all I could do is look and see that /sw/fink/10.2/CVS/Entries indeed does not exist (there is a /10.1/CVS/Entries, which I guess is why it updates the 10.1 directory just fine). So do I need to put an Entries file in there? Where would I get it from? Should I just reinstall fink? I updated fink from 0.4 to 0.5 (installed but never used 0.4) and there is still a /sw/fink.old/; could that be screwing things up? Any help is greatly appreciated.
[quote]cvs server: Updating 10.2
cvs update: in directory 10.2/stable:
cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
cvs server: Updating 10.2/stable
cvs update: cannot write 10.2/stable/.cvsignore: Permission denied
cvs update: in directory 10.2/stable/crypto:
cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
cvs server: Updating 10.2/stable/crypto
cvs update: cannot write 10.2/stable/crypto/.cvsignore: Permission denied
cvs [update aborted]: cannot make directory 10.2/stable/crypto/finkinfo: No such file or directory
### execution of su failed, exit code 1
Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.<hr></blockquote>
My UNIX knowledge is rudimentary (though growing) and all I could do is look and see that /sw/fink/10.2/CVS/Entries indeed does not exist (there is a /10.1/CVS/Entries, which I guess is why it updates the 10.1 directory just fine). So do I need to put an Entries file in there? Where would I get it from? Should I just reinstall fink? I updated fink from 0.4 to 0.5 (installed but never used 0.4) and there is still a /sw/fink.old/; could that be screwing things up? Any help is greatly appreciated.
[quote]cvs server: Updating 10.2
cvs update: in directory 10.2/stable:
cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
cvs server: Updating 10.2/stable
cvs update: cannot write 10.2/stable/.cvsignore: Permission denied
cvs update: in directory 10.2/stable/crypto:
cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
cvs server: Updating 10.2/stable/crypto
cvs update: cannot write 10.2/stable/crypto/.cvsignore: Permission denied
cvs [update aborted]: cannot make directory 10.2/stable/crypto/finkinfo: No such file or directory
### execution of su failed, exit code 1
Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.<hr></blockquote>