Re: fink selfupdate failing

Chris Schram via Fink-beginners <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
Organization Where the hell is Langlois, Oregon?
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2019-11-02, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/1/19 2:49 PM, Chris Schram via Fink-beginners wrote:
>> I must have had to edit something recently to get gpgme11 to build, but
>> now it's coming back to haunt me. The error message does not give enough
>> of a clue how to fix this. Can someone give me simple step-by-step
>> instructions? Thanks.
>> 
>> I will now run the git command to retrieve the latest package descriptions.
>> 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/git fetch --quiet origin
>> /usr/bin/git checkout --quiet master
>> /usr/bin/git merge --ff-only --quiet origin/master
>> error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
>> 	10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/crypto/gpgme11.info 
>> 	10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/crypto/gpgme11.patch
>> Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge.
>> Aborting
>> ### execution of /usr/bin/git failed, exit code 1
>
> cd /opt/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/crypto
> git checkout gpgme11.info gpgme11.patch
>
> You can then use `git status` to see if those 2 files have been reset 
> (if not listed, then they're no longer modified and fink selfupdate will 
> work).

Easy for you. Mysterious for me. The trick worked. Thanks.

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