On 1/17/15 7:51 AM, Lukas Wunner wrote: > Hi, > > to whom it may concern, I've backported Fink 0.38.3 to 10.4. > It was surprisingly simple, I've only come across a handful > of issues, all of which are fixed by the following 2 commits: > > https://github.com/l1k/fink/commit/59893b5af0f0e99aaf0a54b6ef80b1d93d5a2bf3 > https://github.com/l1k/fink/commit/8fca33932264f58ef4a7174adc6f9d7d60e90433 > > How to replicate: > * Install Perl 5.18.2 using the attached perl5182.info > * Symlink /sw/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl
^ Sorry, but this is completely unacceptable for official project purposes, because we _don't_ have people muck around in the system area, and in particular we _don't_ have them overwrite system stuff. Fink assumes that the OS X system perl on 10.4 is version 5.8.1, and this change will cause breakage in packages that rely on that. > * Install Fink 0.38.3 using the attached fink-10.4.info and > fink-10.4.patch, the latter includes the 2 commits above > > I've only tested this on powerpc32, I don't have an i386 machine > available. Also, I'm not sure if I've catched all portability > issues. That being said, I've used this to successfully compile > and install ntp 4.2.8, libidn 1.22 and mutt 1.5.23 (with fix > for CVE-2014-9116) using the attached info and patch files. > > Best regards, > > Lukas > > > A couple of other things: 1) You don't want a revision of 91 in fink-10.4.info, since that's the revision for 10.9. 10.4 should have a revision of 31 to agree with past practices. 2) The section starting with "# user-defined environment variables may override a package-specific or fink-default value" seems completely contrary to our intentions. We *deliberately* don't want user variables to modify anything in a build. Rather than symlinking to /usr/bin/perl, what might be better would be to have fink-10.4 Depend on perl5182-core, and to modify All of its its scripts to use %p/bin/perl5.18.2 via a PatchScript. The install operation would then be: 1) Have people bootstrap with fink-0.30.2 on 10.4. 2) Have the first selfupdate bring in fink-0.38.3-31 I'll cc one of our developers who is interested in keeping up with 10.4/PPC development, since he has a test machine and would like a fink release which supports newer .info file elements such as automatic xz unpacking and RuntimeDepends. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ 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
