My biggest concern with the 10.8 support is the situation with the perlmod
packages.
Specifically whether we could adjust fink to automatically handle the newer
perl in each OS
release without requiring every single *-pm.info file to be adjusted initially.
Daniel
Macks suggested adding a system perl variant to the Type list for the perl
versions in
the *-pm.info files. I am unclear how this would possibly work across OS
releases though
since it the system-perl variant would install into a different versioned
subdirectory
for 10.7 (5.12.3) than for 10.8 (5.12.4) thus requiring all of the installed
system-perl
variants to be rebuilt after upgrading the OS.
The approach I was hoping we could implement would be a fall-thru where if
the user
executed...
fink install foobar-pm5124
while bootstrapped under 10.8 when 5.12.4 wasn't yet added to the Type perl and
(%type_pkg[perl] = 5124) 10.8 wasn't added to the Distribution field of
foobar-pm.info
that fink would automatically check if system perl was of the desired version
for the package and then effectively append that perl version to the Type perl
so that %type_pkg[perl], type_raw[perl], type_num[perl] could work normally in
the existing *-pm.info files. If this could be made to work in the existing fink
framework, we might only have to adjust instances like..
if [ "%type_pkg[perl]" = "5100" ] && [ "%m" != "powerpc" ] ; then
sed -e 's|/usr/bin/env|/usr/bin/arch -%m|g' -e 's|@PREFIX@|%p|g' -e
's|@PERL_RAW@|%type_raw[perl]|g' < %{PatchFile} | patch -p1
elif [ "%type_pkg[perl]" = "5123" ] || [ "%type_pkg[perl]" = "5124" ] ; then
sed -e 's|@PREFIX@|%p|g' -e 's|env perl@PERL_RAW@|env perl5.12|g' -e
's|@PERL_RAW@|%type_raw[perl]|g' < %{PatchFile} | patch -p1
else
sed -e 's|@PREFIX@|%p|g' -e 's|@PERL_RAW@|%type_raw[perl]|g' < %{PatchFile} |
patch -p1
fi
to be something more portable like...
elif [ "%type_pkg[perl]" -ge "5123" ] ; then
Note that I am not suggesting that maintainers would have to abandon adding the
explicit perl versions
to the Type perl entry but rather than we adjust things so that the existing
perlmods info set will be
usable in general without requiring explicitly adding the new perl version on
each OS release.
Jack
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