1) I've finally smoothed some tuits down enough to work on https://github.com/fink/fink/issues/42 . This is going use a similar methodology as the system-SDK packages, in that we're not going to have system-javaXY packages present at all for systems where one cannot possibly have that XY (e.g. system-java13 on Mountain Lion). Having a virtual package present but not installed produces a confusing faux build process when installing something that depends on it, whereas not having an entry for the package gives a straightforward "package does not exist" message. Once I've got something that WorksForMe on different platforms, I'll put it in a branch of the main fink repository.
2) Regardless of what choice we make with regard to a potential separate 10.9 tree, we need to come up with a general way to exclude unsupported update paths in fink. We've been kind of half-assed about this since 10.4. Right now, for example, someone on 10.6/i386 can update to 10.7. This is doubly unsupported by us, yet "fink selfupdate" or "fink reinstall fink" will point them to the 10.7 distribution. I'm thinking that we might want to check the current Distribution in fink.conf along with the current OS X version, and if these aren't in a supported upgrade path we'd disable fink build and install operations (build, install, reinstall, selfupdate...) with a warning notice. If somebody had a fink that did this installed on 10.8, say, they'd update to 10.9 with "10.8" in their Distribution, and then when they tried to update or install something, fink would see that the 10.8 distribution can't be updated to 10.9, and so the operation would be locked out. As above, I'll produce a branch when I've got something. It'd also be lovely if we could actually update the instructions on finkproject.org. :-\ -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ fink-core mailing list fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-core
