Could we not make a system-xquartz that provides system-xfree86 at the version
it actually is via .pc file? This will solve a version issue if we ever return
to a fink xfree (not saying we ever will, but why close the door).
Then things hat have a versioned conflicts or whatever shock be on the system
xquartz instead of xfree
Just thinking out loud as I’m not an X11 guy there may be a reason this is a
bad idea, it’s just my first thought instead of poisoning the xfree version.
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> On Nov 3, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I’ve created a git branch named show-xquartz-release-version (
> https://github.com/fink/fink/tree/show-xquartz-release-version ) which
> changes the version of system-xfree86*
>
> Background: we used to have a working version test for X11, but that became
> nonfunctional at some point (I haven’t delved in the commit history for
> that). It was decided just to encode “7.2” as the version, corresponding to
> the Xorg-7.2 codebase, along with an Epoch of 2.
>
> However, given our recent issues with certain Xquartz versions, it seems like
> it would be useful for us to track the XQuartz version. We do track the
> versions of certain components based on their .pc files, but that isn’t a
> reliable indicator of an Xquartz release; the most notable break was in libXt
> between XQuartz-2.8 and 2.9, and its .pc didn’t even change versions.
>
> My approach has been to query the receipts database in order to get the
> aggregate XQuartz version. This is similar to what we do for the Xcode CL
> tools for the “xcode” (not “xcode.app”) version.
>
> $ fink list -t system-xfree86
> Scanning package description files..........
> Information about 9932 packages read in 2 seconds.
> i system-xfree86 3:2.7.112-3 [placeholder for user installed x11]
> i system-xfree86-dev 3:2.7.112-3 [placeholder for user installed
> x11 development tools]
> i system-xfree86-manual-install 3:2.7.112-3 Manually installed X11
> components
> i system-xfree86-shlibs 3:2.7.112-3 [placeholder for user installed
> x11 shared libraries]
>
> The epoch has been changed to 3 because the Xquartz version is less than 7.2.
> I don’t think we actually track the system-xfree86 version anywhere, but
> there’s no reason not to be consistent. I have XQuartz-2.7.11 installed, but
> the package info gives ‘2.7.112':
>
> $ pkgutil --pkg-info org.macosforge.xquartz.pkg
> package-id: org.macosforge.xquartz.pkg
> version: 2.7.112
> volume: /
> location:
> install-time: 1478014088
>
> One downside to this approach is that if somebody removes the receipt the
> versioning will be lost. If somebody has an alternative approach to get at
> the aggregate XQuartz version based on the currently installed files or the
> output from executables, I’m open to using that.
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
>
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