I have always said and stand by that BDO packages should be allowed to have a Dep on other BDO packages.
So -dev packages can dep on other -dev packages. It’s be a slight bending of the rule but still keep it close to the original and it would solve lots of issues. I have brought this up a few times in the past. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On Aug 20, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Jack Howarth <howarth.at.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > The buildworld has also exposed a major flaw in the r-base* packaging. The > builds logs for… > > http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/logs/cran-slam-r30.log > > and > > http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/logs/cran-rjava-r31.log > > show the missing dependencies on gcc49-compilers and libicu48-dev (among > others from > /sw/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/etc/Makeconf's linkage of > LIBS = -lpcre -llzma -lbz2 -lz -lm -liconv -licuuc -licui18n > > The debian developers solve this in their r-base-dev package with > dependencies on the required *-dev packages… > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/r-base-dev > > Unfortunately the use of BuildDependsOnly: True in the r-base*-dev split-off > prohibits this in fink. So it would appear that the only solution is to > explicitly add those missing *-dev dependencies to the BuildDepends in every > single cran package in libs/rmods. Ugh. > Jack > ps It makes one wonder if fink couldn't be modified to special case the > BuildDependsOnly: True to disable it for the *-dev split-off itself. That is > that Depends on *-dev which use BuildDependsOnly: True are ignored for the > case of their presence in a *-dev which has already has BuildDependsOnly: > True itself since that will recursively force the BuildDependsOnly: True on > the other -dev packages to be honored despite their presence in the Depends > of r-rbase*-dev. > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser > <hanspe...@snaggledworks.com> wrote: > > http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/out/filters.xml > > > > but this gives me a 404 error. > > That's fixed now. > > > In any case, I fixed some of the issues you pointed out (in sdl2, > > fflas-ffpack, mc, the-silver-searcher) but now am mostly left with > > "failures/project/insufficient_permission" failures, but I am not quite > > sure what the failure indicates. Perhaps this: > > > > cp: /sw/share/info/dir.bak: Permission denied > > > > I think this is caused by the install-info tool and the fact that the > > affected packages (e.g. grep) use the "InfoDocs" fields. I don't think a > > package author can do much about that, can they? As such, perhaps you could > > check if the above line is the only one with "permission denied", and in > > that case, demote the "failure" to a "warning" ? > > Yeah, I've downgraded those to a warning. fink-bld takes care of any > writing being done directly into %p. > > Hanspeter > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/_______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
