On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:06:06 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner 
<h...@at.or.at> wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:15 PM, Daniel Macks wrote:
> > > The svn-bisect utility program is indeed bundled with the 
> App::SVN::Bisect module upstream and the module is also usable 
> directly. I didn't realize the end goal was the utility, so when I 
> packaged the module itself, the program got embedded in that package 
> by default--*not* generating it, or generating it stand-alone 
> separately and dependent on the module is harder than just letting it 
> happen:) Install app-svn-bisect-pm5100 (or I any other variant, can't 
> remember which others I set) and you automatically already have 
> /sw/bin/svn-bisect. The Provides:svn-bisect trick or a bundle package 
> are two ways to get an invariant name to allow easy dependencies on 
> it. Depends (heh) how likely the module/program is to be changed and 
> for others to need "a specific minimum version" for a certain feature 
> rather than just accepting "any version of the command". > dan
>
> I think a Provides: svn-bisect covers my concerns.  I think most 
> people are going to look for it under that name rather than the 
> module name. 

Done. Now 'fink list svn-bisect' lists it, and 'fink install'ing it 
will prompt to select among the various perl-variants of 
app-svn-bisect-pmXXX (the underlying actual package) that exist on a 
user's platform (also noted in 'fink info'). 

dan

  --
Daniel Macks
dma...@netspace.org



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