Re: [Fink-devel] system-perl Provides of "extra" (noncore) modules

2012-07-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 7/6/12 4:33 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > How "fairly soon" would you like it? I can go ahead and start branch_0_34. > > -- Alex > > On 7/6/12 7:16 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: >> > Yes, I've been intending to do something like that. >> > >> > It would be very useful to have a release inclu

Re: [Fink-devel] system-perl Provides of "extra" (noncore) modules

2012-07-06 Thread Alexander Hansen
How "fairly soon" would you like it? I can go ahead and start branch_0_34. -- Alex On 7/6/12 7:16 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: > Yes, I've been intending to do something like that. > > It would be very useful to have a release including 10.8 fairly soon, so that > I could try out some postinst

Re: [Fink-devel] system-perl Provides of "extra" (noncore) modules

2012-07-06 Thread David R. Morrison
Yes, I've been intending to do something like that. It would be very useful to have a release including 10.8 fairly soon, so that I could try out some postinstall.pl upgrade ideas with a fink-10.8.info file in place in the distribution. -- Dave On Jul 6, 2012, at 8:04 AM, Alexander Hansen wr

Re: [Fink-devel] system-perl Provides of "extra" (noncore) modules

2012-07-06 Thread Alexander Hansen
And we'd probably want to have some way in the fink scripts to notify users to install the bundle if they've upgrading their OS version. E.g. maybe we could have postinstall.pl send a message when the current Distribution value doesn't correspond to the current OS version. On 7/6/12 6:59 AM, Davi

Re: [Fink-devel] system-perl Provides of "extra" (noncore) modules

2012-07-06 Thread David R. Morrison
Good point. The reason this was done is documented in the perlXXX.info file, but you are right that it creates potential upgrade problems. I guess what we need is a package called perlXXX-upgrade which is a bundle that depends on all these non-core pm's. Would that solve it, or am I overlookin

[Fink-devel] system-perl Provides of "extra" (noncore) modules

2012-07-05 Thread Daniel Macks
The VirtPackages.pm system-perl packages have extensive Provides lists of the various -pmXXX packages. Apple supplies modules with its perl that are "extra", not part of the upstream perl-core distro. The VP system-perl packages appear to Provides these extra ones as well as the core ones. The r