> On Sep 25, 2015, at 10:26, Daniel Johnson <daniel.johnso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Sep 25, 2015, at 1:14 PM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> There are a couple of relatively minor hiccups:
>> 
>> 1)  You would have to use “fink selfupdate” twice:  once to update fink, and 
>> once to download the 10.9-libcxx package descriptions.
>> 2)  The locally-build .deb collection gets orphaned (downloaded .debs from 
>> the bindist remain accessible), so we would need to handle that.
>> Since changing distributions for an OS X version has been a rare occurrence, 
>> with only   10.2 -> 10.2-gcc3.3 and 10.4-transitional -> 10.4 before now, 
>> and because package rebuilds aren’t required for this transition, my thought 
>> was that we could just provide a run-once-manually helper script to move the 
>> .debs to the right place, reconstitute the /sw/fink/debs symlinks, and do a 
>> scanpackages to regenerate the local Packages.gz for apt.
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> If there are no objections, I’d like to switch the master fink branch on 
>> github over to using this tree in preparation for the 10.11 release.
>> 
>> --
>> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
>> Fink User Liaison
> 
> That sounds fine to me.
> 
> Daniel
> 

I made the switch, but instead of a helper script I added some code to 
postinstall.pl.




-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison


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