On 4/29/12 10:57 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:43:33 -0700, Alexander Hansen > <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > We've got some maintainers (J. Howarth, H. Todd that I know of) who have >> access to Mountain Lion. Jack, in particular has been doing build >> tests. To help expedite updates, I propose the following: >> >> 1) >> Some packages are tagged as Distribution: 10.7, which of course makes >> them invisible on 10.8. ;-) Unless we get an objection in advance from >> the maintainer, any packages so tagged which are confirmed to work are >> subject to re-tagging. >> 2) >> For maintained packages which need some substantive change, the >> procedure will be that a package description will be sent to the >> maintainer and/or posted on the submissions tracker. If no response >> from the maintainer is forthcoming within 72 hours, then the package can >> be updated if a Core Team member signs off on the change. >> 3) >> For unmaintained packages, Core Team oversight before committing will >> still be required, but without the 72 hour evaluation period. >> Feedback, as always, is welcome and appreciated. > > The big question is whether 10.8 will use the 10.7 distro (the way > 10.[56] use the 10.4 distro) or be a new distro itself (the way 10.7 was > vs 10.6). Given that only OS X 10.7 uses dist:10.7 at this point, > there's no reason anything in it needs to be tagged "Distribution:10.7" > unless we know it to be nonviable on 10.8. Likewise, dist:10.7 files > don't need to carry any of the dist/arch/type tags for variants that > only existed in the 10.[456] worlds. That can go a long way to > simplifying those crufty lines (and help detect .info that actually > *don't* supply any variant on the new distro). The cost is that it means > the *same* .info file won't be usable on both 10.[56] and 10.7whatever > (but the diff is still easy to read and any standard diff utility should > be able to ignore the expected different lines). > dan > > -- > Daniel Macks > dma...@netspace.org > >
Right. I didn't specify what _form_ of retagging would be needed. :-) My assumption was that 10.7 and 10.8 would share a tree, but there may be issues that ultimately preclude that. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/got-job/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
