The only resolution that I see is to move texlive* and ptex* to stable. Are they ready?
-- Dave On Jul 9, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > On 7/9/10 11:58 AM, Tomoaki Okayama wrote: >> Hi, >> >> At Fri, 9 Jul 2010 08:07:03 -0600, >> David R. Morrison wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Jul 9, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> [1] Why the buildworld is building the ptex-base from stable is a whole >>>> other issue, and I have no idea as to why it's doing this. It does >>>> build ptex-base/unstable, but likes to build and use anew >>>> ptex-base/stable in the middle of runs. >>> >>> Well, I think I can explain this. The ptex-base in stable has a long list >>> of Provides: >>> >>> Provides:<< >>> tetex-base, tetex3-base, ptex3-base, mendexk, >>> context, dvipdfm, epstopdf, pdftex, tetex-macosx, >>> (%type_raw[-nox] = .) xdvik >>> << >>> >>> whereas the ptex-base in unstable only Provides ptex3-base and mendexk. >>> >>> This means that if another package asks for tetex3-base, for example, then >>> fink has two choices: ptex-base and tetex-base. Since ptex-base is earlier >>> in the alphabet, the automated script chooses ptex-base. But since only >>> the stable version Provides tetex3-base, the stable version is used. >>> >>> I do not know why the Provides line in ptex-base was changed. >>> >> Thanks for the explanation. The reason for the change of Provides >> is that ptex-base in unstable becomes a small package, like xetex, >> whereas ptex-base in stable provides all teTeX + additional pTeX. >> >> TeX Live package is very huge. If ptex-base in unstable provides >> texlive-base, another huge package comes into being there, and >> we do not like it. So we decided that ptex-base does not provides >> texlive-base (and tetex-base, too). >> >> Anyway: >> >> At Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:31:25 -0400, >> Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: >>> >>> ... Could you please modify ptex-base in stable to >>> conflicts/replaces with texlive-base? so that the swapping can take >>> place gracefully? >>> >> Committed. Please check it. > > Thanks. This changed the error report. I now get: > > **** > While trying to install: > ptex-base-3.1.10-1004 > > The following inconsistencies found: > Unsatisfied dependency in ptex-texmf: texlive-base | texlive-nox-base > **** > > This seems to come from ptex-texmf/unstable explicitly Depending: on > texlive-base. > > Hanspeter > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
