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On 7/6/10 10:25 AM, Scott Hannahs wrote:
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> On Jul 6, 2010, at 08:38, Alexander Hansen wrote:
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>> On 7/5/10 5:53 PM, Scott Hannahs wrote:
>>> I did the original package development for a package and now have
>>> heard that the installation fails on 10.6.  I haven't looked at
>>> package development in awhile and there are a lot of improvements so
>>> I was going to update the package.
>>>
>>> -Scott
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Different .info files for each OS version with appropriate Type: perl
>> for each, perhaps?
> 
> I can do that as well, and just hard code the version of perl used.  But
> somewhere (and I can't find it this morning) I thought that the policy
> was to try to have as many packages built that will handle all 10.4
> though 10.6.  

It's not mandatory by any means.  It's _convienient_ for maintainers
when they can do that, but when packages need to use only the system
perl, that breaks down.

Thus I was trying to find the accepted way of using the
> perl version and the package version.  But that tells me that my package
> is duplicately defined.
> 
> And validate gives
> % fink validate rmagic.info
> Validating package file rmagic.info...
> Error: Duplicate declaration of package "rmagic". (rmagic.info)
> Error: Duplicate declaration of package "rmagic". (rmagic.info)
> Error: Duplicate declaration of package "rmagic". (rmagic.info)
> Error: Duplicate declaration of package "rmagic". (rmagic.info)
> 
> this is under OS 10.5.  I have the distribution defined 3 times for 10.5
> for different versions of perl.  I have 4 versions of perl on my system
> (3 in fink and one from the OS).
> 
> I can get rid of this by defining my package to be rmagic-pmNN but is
> that necessary?
> 
> -Scott
> 

If it's primarily a user-executable package, rather than a module that
other things load, I'd recommend _not_ putting in the -pmNN.
- -- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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