Re: [Fink-devel] Type: perl -- How many versions to keep?

2007-01-20 Thread David R. Morrison
The history here is that a perl584 package was introduced in 10.3 unstable, but it never moved to stable due to the fact that 10.4 used perl586. On the other hand, we did create a perl581 package in 10.4, for ease of upgrade: people who had a bunch of -pm581's installed, which had used

Re: [Fink-devel] future pymol-py problems

2007-01-20 Thread David R. Morrison
I've read through the Pymol license, which permits the source code to be redistributed. That means the correct way to handle this in fink is as follows: the fink package manager does the SVN checkout, strips out SVN stuff, and creates a tarball. We then host that tarball on the fink site

Re: [Fink-devel] future pymol-py problems

2007-01-20 Thread Jack Howarth
David, Currently I have... Source: mirror:custom:pymol/pymol-0_99rc8-src.tgz CustomMirror: Primary: http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge What is the recommended form for the Source line when the source tarball only exists within the fink mirror system? Also, I think we should add

[Fink-devel] failure building perl581 module

2007-01-20 Thread David Reiser
When I started maintaining finance-quotehist, I didn't fully test all the versions when I created the multiple version info file. Now I'm trying to split out the 581 version as a legacy at the same time I'm adding a 588 version to the main info file I'm planning on maintaining. I have

Re: [Fink-devel] failure building perl581 module

2007-01-20 Thread David Reiser
On 20 Jan 2007, at 11:44:53 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: My guess here is that you left out the Type: perl line? The default CompileScript is different for Type: perl packages than it is for most packages. That is the problem (or rather, I deleted it because I thought I was specifying it