-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/6/10 10:25 AM, Scott Hannahs wrote: > > On Jul 6, 2010, at 08:38, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwzUcIACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ/0+ACeIc75Gz9gAOVE0ZuDDdyBvUaM duwAn0GwM0Nh8UAtEtkWSN2PusMy7sz5 =s2As -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
