The VirtPackages.pm system-perl packages have extensive Provides lists of the various -pmXXX packages. Apple supplies modules with its perl that are "extra", not part of the upstream perl-core distro. The VP system-perl packages appear to Provides these extra ones as well as the core ones. The real perlXXX-core packages do not have the apple extra modules, and so their Provides lists are a subset than the VP system-perl ones.
One of the reasons we supply perlXXX-core on distros that support more than one OS X version is to enable users to upgrade their OS X, which likely involves jumping to a newer system-perl version, without too much headache. They can just install fink's perlXXX-core for whatever XXX the previous OS X version had (our real perlXXX-core packages are masked out of the Distribution that has that XXX as system-perl). Now they still have the same perl-version interp, only now it's supplied by fink rather than apple, and I assume we expect that users' existing installed set of -pmXXX and other things that are tied to that older perl-version would still have a good chance of continuing to work. Flaw: this fink perlXXX-core does not Provides all the packages that the previous system-perl did, so packages relying on them are now broken. The VP system-perl isn't a real dpkg package and the system upgrade isn't handled by dpkg, so dpkg doesn't notice that the upgrade removed the provider! of a package that had reverse-dependencies. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
