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On 26-Feb-05, at 4:07 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
I have 2 loosely related questions:
1. What is the status of the BuildConflicts mechanism? I seem to remember that some months ago this worked as intended, i.e. the buildonly packages in question were removed before building and reinstalled afterwards. There were problems when many packages were installed at once, but this is normal and acceptable.
Recently, I tried to use this mechanism to get rid of some of those freetype 1 vs 2 conflicts by putting
BuildConflicts: freetype | freetype-hinting
into the info file. This never worked. Depending on the order of the two packages and on which one was installed, it either did nothing at all or gave me a circular dependency error.
Now, with the arrival of the buildlock mechanism, Buildconflicts seems to be half dead: It is transformed into an ordinary Conflicts for the buildlock package, but there is no automatic removal any more, only a crash. And no automatic eventual restoration either, of course. As a message on the users list indicates, the message produced by this crash is not useful for normal users.
2. Is there any documentation of the buildlock system, in particular an explanation of how it works and what was the problem this is supposed to solve? Not one of the problems I had, it seems to me. From reading the sources, I found that there is a no_buildlocks option, and I would prefer this to be the default. There are even traces of a "Buildlock_PkgVersion" parameter in Fink::Config which "fink configure" and the documentation know nothing about.
3. Another undocumented config parameter is ConfFileCompatVersion.
-- Martin
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