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On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:34 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:
Do we have an implicit "epoch" for distributions, so that a
package built under 10.3 will be implicitly a lower version than
the same package version and revision number under 10.4-t?
This would be handy, as we wouldn't have to deal with having
different revision numbers for the same package in different OS
releases.
I'm thinking that this "epoch" would be another epoch than the
epoch that we can use in our .info files.
Blair,
The problem here is that we are stuck with what dpkg does, since we
use dpkg for basic package installation/removal. (To be more
precise, we are stuck with what the version of dpkg that we use
does.) Since epoch has a particular meaning there, and since we're
already using that meaning within fink, its hard to see how we
could add another epoch-like thing.
Long ago I repeatedly proposed putting the OS X version the info was
targeted for as the beginning of the revision field, or some form of
it, this would make it possible to update-all on an updated os x and
everything could be rebuilt and updated. This was argued against
because it was said that it was too much work for matintainers to
edit all their infos upon updating, but according to our (loosely)
followed policy, they need to be changed anyway, as the revisions are
supposed to be different because the same info file built under 2
different os x versions have different lib requirements and fink auto
adds depends based on the os x version. Oh, and don't forget that
some packages were removed in 10.4, like dlcompat, and that affects
many fink packages.
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