I'm trying to build/install a package that depends upon 50+ other packages.
One of these packages when downloaded and built does not have correct LDFLAGS
for my Mac OS 10.6 system. This is a 1 line change in the makefile, and
subsequently a manual build and install works just fine.
But I don't see a way to get fink to understand that my manual install has
happened and the dependency on this package has been satisfied, i.e., using
dpkg to de-select the file does no good (fink just says it's going to use the
de-selected package anyway, downloads it, clobbers my change, and subsequently
the build fails).
Neither can I fink remove/purge a package which according to fink is not yet
installed.
I finally searched under ./var to find all the "Depends:" lines, made copies of
the files, and then edited them to remove the dependency on the package I want to skip.
Now if I do
$ fink show-deps TARGET_PKG_TO_BUILD | grep -i MANUALLY_INSTALLED_PKG
- the manually installed package is not listed.
Yet when I try to do "fink install TARGET_PKG_TO_BUILD" fink nonetheless still
eventually lists the manually installed package as a dependency, tries to download it,
and subsequently the build fails. I did a fink scan packages, cleanup, but fink still
insists that package I don't want it to build has to be built.
So i next tried patching the downloaded source tar archive to include the Makefile
change, but because this changes the checksum, after running fink install again, even the
override option (4) to use the "incomplete/damaged" package fails. Once again,
it downloads the original package, clobbers my change, and the build subsequently fails.
I can understand that for a "turn key" solution this stringent approach to not
allowing people to tamper/patch builds could be a good thing. I am not as familiar with
Debian package tools as I am with rpm and yum, but it seems to me that fink should have
an option to let you change dependencies on as yet uninstalled packages including use
your own custom *local* packages and/or override dependencies as you may need to. (I have
made custom spec files, built local rpm files, and have had no trouble getting yum etc.
to use them, or change the dependencies to fit my requirements on CentOS systems, etc).
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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