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Daniel Macks wrote: | | That's why I also mentioned adding some sort of magic number and have | the indexer ignore any file that is newer than the level it supports. | Maybe a "MinFinkVersion: " field as the first line?
After discussion on #fink which I'll try to summarize:
The problem is a couple of bugs in fink. The parser dies when it meets unknown percent expansions and selfupdate should not be doing an index until it has checked for and installed a new fink. Both these bugs need to be fixed.
To work around these, because we can't magically change code in released fink packages, a number of possible solutions were discussed;
1. make yet another Distribution: 2. change the extension from .info to something else for packages using these new % expansions. 3. make the first line in packages using these new % expansions 'Info2: <<' and update fink to not treat this field specially in future releases. previously released fink versions will grumble a little but about unterminated here-docs, but won't die.
I like solution 3 since I proposed it :), any other answers?
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