Q5.28: I have Fink installed away from the main partition and I can't update the fink package from source. There are errors involving chowname.

A: If your error looks like:

This first test is designed to die, so please ignore the error
message on the next line.
# Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
./00compile............................ok
./Base/initialize......................ok
./Base/param...........................ok
./Base/param_boolean...................ok
./Command/cat..........................ok
./Command/chowname.....................#     
Failed test (./Command/chowname.t at line 27)
#          got: 'root'
#     expected: 'nobody'
then you need to run Get Info on the drive/partition where Fink is installed and unselect the "Ignore ownership" button.