I would like to make a suggestion: Since this is going to add complexity to the fink code (a lot of complexity, I might add :-) and we might choose this moment to upgrade the .info format. This will need additional discussion, but I believe we have a mostly workable xml format decided (check the list archives). I am going to work on fixing up my little XML parser addition to fink so that we can do this. I think that if we do this properly, we can add this and variants together with a maximum of shared code.
Create the default variant, then, if necessary, any other variants (ignoring variants prefixed by __ )by applying settings over the default's. Then once the user has chosen which variant(s) to build and install, create an additional set of variants (again prefixed by __ ). Any such __variant would not be allowed to do certain things, and would inherit certain dependencies. Then the package would be built, and the seperate __variant installscripts would be run. Once finished, dpkg would be called several times (once for each __v ) to build the packages then one last time to install them all. IMHO, Kyle Moffett On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 10:49 , David R. Morrison wrote: > There are now 15 packages which have been converted to the new style of > pkg and pkg-shlibs; I thank all of you for your contributions to this > project. > > The next step in the project is to develop a system by which both pkg > and pkg-shlibs will be created from a single .info file (through an > extension to fink). Max and I worked out a broad outline of this in > a discussion here a few weeks ago. I have created model .info files > (and .patch files) for all 15 of these packages, and put them in a > new directory in CVS, /dists/shlibs. (This directory should be regarded > as temporary, while we do testing and development of this extension > to fink.) There is a README file which describes the format, which > I reproduce here: _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
