On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 09:56:27PM -0400, Charles Lepple wrote: > On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > >> One issue that should be considered when deciding if fink 10.7 will >> support >> some form of an upgrade installation option > > I haven't been following this too closely, but if there is a separate > 10.7 .info file tree, then I'm not sure a clean upgrade is possible > (especially considering what happens when a package hasn't been moved to > the 10.7 tree).
An unsupported trick exists to do an upgrade but as you mention below that totally destroys the opportunity for major package cleanups. For example, the is no clean way to refactor the existing openmpi into a much simplier form... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3320182&group_id=17203&atid=414256 with having a clean break at 10.7. Jack > > At the very least, it would be necessary to have some functionality to > clean up such orphaned packages, especially those related to older > versions of Perl and Python. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
