-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/28/10 9:22 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > One piece of legacy coding left in the gcc4x packages > which perplexes me is the use of... > > %N-shlibs (>= %v-%r) > > instead of... > > %N-shlibs (= %v-%r) > > for the Depends field of the main gcc4x package. Was there > a bug in fink at some point that required the use of >= > rather than =? I was going to change that as well but > wanted to make certain there wasn't some obscure reason > for that particular conditional. > Jack > Convenience, possibly. The bug hasn't gone away.
If the main package has Depends: %N-shlibs (= %v-%r), if a user has the main and -shlibs installed they can't update to a new version-revision in one step. The build will be performed, but fink won't install the update: the new -shlibs has to go in first, and the old main package will complain because of the %v-%r mismatch. But afterwards apt-get is perfectly happy to figure out how to do the upgrade. I'd argue that (= %v-%r) is a safer option. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvYO6IACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+lugCeKNYewd0UnNr9HOHR2sULhJ43 46oAoI90OLjP13LEPT7gHH26ENmUFZG9 =n0GD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
