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Daniel Macks wrote:

| In implementing variants, I'm doing some percent expansions on Package
| using %things that may not be known to previous fink. That means (I
| think) that if a user selfupdates while running an older fink and
| there are variant-ish .info files, his fink is gonna croak when it
| tries to index (he's still under old-fink, since it's not yet known
| that there is a new fink package).
|

Well, don't commit anything to unstable until a fink which understands the
new % expansions has been released. Then when the user selfupdates fink will
install the latest fink and reexecute fink before creating the index. If
this is not the case, it is a bug.

Peter
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Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com
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