On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 01:54:32PM -0800, Trevor Harmon wrote: > On Feb 19, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Alexander Strange wrote: > > > >The appropriate thing to do would be to make all the seperate packages > >Provide wxwidgets, and then Conflict/Replace each other if necessary.
Having them all Provide a common "placeholder" package only works if they really are drop-in replacements for each other, for example, identical headers, and .dylib links to identically-named and binary-compatible runtime .dylib files. Is that the case here? > Okay, makes sense. Currently the wxmac/wxgtk packages Conflict/Replace > each other, but they don't Provide anything. As a test, I modified the > wxmac package so that it Provides wxwidgets, rebuilt it, and indeed a > wxwidgets "virtual package" showed up in Fink Commander. Interestingly, > however, Fink Commander reported the version of this package as > 2.5.2.8-2, even though the providing package (wxmac) was 2.5.3. Somehow > the virtual wxwidgets package inherited the version from wxgtk instead, > even though I never touched it and it doesn't Provide anything. Anybody > know why? Weird. > All this makes me wonder... How would Fink resolve dependencies in a > situation where none of the wx* packages is installed, and then the > user requests installation of a package depending on wxwidgets? How > would it know whether to install wxgtk or wxmac, assuming both of them > Provide wxwidgets? It asks. > Also, there is a warning notice in Fink's docs about the Provides > field. Apparently it is dangerous because Depends ignores version > information in a package with the Provides field. Does this mean we > should find another workaround for this problem? Bingo. "Provides" packages are neither versioned by default nor explicitly versionable. This is a limitation of the Debian toolchain. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
