Let me briefly explain what the change in update procedure and the bindist will do, to see if there is any objection to the strategy I have chosen.
As of 10.2, we store package descriptions in the CVS module "dists" rather than the CVS module "packages". Although it would be possible to create a file "packages-###.tar.gz" which contains the "dists" module, this is the sort of thing that will be easy to forget later on, and it seems best for long-term maintainance to stick with the module time. Hence, fink has to change what it does during selfupdate. This is actually a good thing, because 10.1 users should really never update beyond 0.4.1, and they should be looking for "packages-###.tar.gz" rather than "dists-###.tar.gz". Now the fink method for checking has been to download http://fink.sf.net/LATEST-VERSION and test that against the installed version number. What I have done is to leave that procedure in place for 10.1 users, but change it for 10.2 users: they will download http://fink.sf.net/CURRENT-VERSION instead, and if they see a newer one, they fetch dists-###.tar.gz (instead of packages-###.tar.gz). When we release 0.4.1a, all users would upgrade to that, then they'll get fink-0.11.1 installed which knows about the new strategy, and any 10.2 users on their next "fink selfupdate" will get updated to 0.5.0 (the value of CURRENT-VERSION). In spite of its name, LATEST-VERSION will remain forever at 0.4.1a . With apt-get, there is a similar problem: bindist users are being pointed to current and release, but 10.1 users shouldn't get pointed to the 0.5.0 binaries. The plan here is to point 10.2 users at 10.2/current and 10.2/release, which will be symlinks to 0.5.0, and leave "current" and "release" as symlinks to 0.4.1. I don't see a reason to make a 0.4.1a binary release, although perhaps for consistency, we should do it as a symlink to 0.4.1. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET comprehensive development tool, built to increase your productivity. Try a free online hosted session at: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr0003en _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
