[alphasubzero949]

I'm now finding these errors when attempting to self update both Fink and Darwin Ports:

A bunch of rsync:delete_one: unlink ... failed errors then this...


rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-23/rsync/main.c(1161)
### execution of rsync failed, exit code 23
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/SelfUpdate.pm line 661.
Updating using rsync failed. Check the error messages above.
(1) Give up
(2) Retry the same mirror
(3) Retry another mirror from your country
(4) Retry another mirror

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No mirror worked. This seems unusual, please submit a short summary of this event to mirrors@finkmirrors.net
Thank you


On DP, I get this:

rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-23/rsync/main.c(1161)


I'm suspecting that the security update broke these two, as they worked flawlessly prior to me applying the update.

[ism]

Not seeing that problem here with dp. Can't be any more help than that though

[alphasubzero949]

Okay, it's definitely the security update. I self-updated DP on my external partition with no problems then applied the security update. Sure enough, the self-updating broke.

[ranga]

According to the Darwin Ports Mailing List and the Fink News Page, the latest security update (2006-001) broke rsync's --delete option.

One workaround mentioned in both the Fink news page and the DP mailing lists is to install the Fink/DP version of rsync and use that version of rsync (by putting it first in your PATH).

The alternative workaround for Fink mentioned on the Fink news page is to do a 'fink selfupdate-cvs' instead of a regular selfupdate.

A DP workaround that worked for me was to make a copy of ports.conf to ~/.portsrc and then change the line starting w/ 'rsync_options' to look like:

rsync_options "-rtzv --delete-after"

--ranga