Re: [Fink-devel] graphviz-nox prospects

2009-06-21 Thread David Fang
> After sensing a disturbance in the Source (reading my emails), > I've gathered that several people (myself included) find the current > graphviz package a little dependence-heavy. I'm considering writing a > Type: -nox variant, which I might need a little guidance with. I'm armed > with t

Re: [Fink-devel] module-build-pm5100-bin conflicts with perl5100

2009-06-21 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Jun 21, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > > Adding C/R fixes a problem, but not the "conflicts with perl5100" one > that started this thread. Ok, then back to my original question, where should the offending file go to so this issue can be fixed as well? Would /sw/bin/module-build- p

[Fink-devel] graphviz-nox prospects

2009-06-21 Thread David Fang
Hi all, After sensing a disturbance in the Source (reading my emails), I've gathered that several people (myself included) find the current graphviz package a little dependence-heavy. I'm considering writing a Type: -nox variant, which I might need a little guidance with. I'm armed wi

Re: [Fink-devel] module-build-pm5100-bin conflicts with perl5100

2009-06-21 Thread Daniel Macks
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 02:56:00PM -0400, Koen van der Drift wrote: > > On Jun 21, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > > > module-build, as with many perl modules that are part of perl core, is > > "dual-lifed": it *also* exists in CPAN, and may be updated more often > > than perl core, and o

Re: [Fink-devel] module-build-pm5100-bin conflicts with perl5100

2009-06-21 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Jun 21, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > module-build, as with many perl modules that are part of perl core, is > "dual-lifed": it *also* exists in CPAN, and may be updated more often > than perl core, and other modules may require that newer version. > Having a separate fink package fo

Re: [Fink-devel] module-build-pm5100-bin conflicts with perl5100

2009-06-21 Thread Daniel Macks
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:24:37PM -0400, Koen van der Drift wrote: > > On Jun 21, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > > > But now also fink's perlXXX itself also has that file? I guess perl > > has a module-build in core now? > > I don't have perl 5.10 installed but if that is the case, wh

Re: [Fink-devel] module-build-pm5100-bin conflicts with perl5100

2009-06-21 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Jun 21, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > But now also fink's perlXXX itself also has that file? I guess perl > has a module-build in core now? I don't have perl 5.10 installed but if that is the case, why not simply remove 5.10 as a variant? - Koen. ---

Re: [Fink-devel] module-build-pm5100-bin conflicts with perl5100

2009-06-21 Thread Daniel Macks
One issue is that the Conflicts/Replaces of module-build-pmXXX-bin haven't been updated in a while. If the goal is to put some non-perlversioned generic script or data in that package for which user can install "any one choice" rather than the "orthogonal variants" module itself, need to C/R all va

Re: [Fink-devel] module-build-pm5100-bin conflicts with perl5100

2009-06-21 Thread Koen van der Drift
(including fink-devel) I did some more digging, and the bin splitoff was created a few years ago by a previous maintainer: The commit log says: "Make a

Re: [Fink-devel] openmpi and case-sensitive HFS

2009-06-21 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander Hansen wrote: [] > I'm not seeing how this idea _wouldn't_ result in non-identical .deb > files if we build on two otherwise identical setups: you on a > case-insensitive filesystem and me on a case-sensitive file system. We > _should_ be able to build the package on either, and install

Re: [Fink-devel] openmpi and case-sensitive HFS

2009-06-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
Jack Howarth wrote: > That would still be hacking around the problem. We have > to face the fact that MacOS X supports both a case-sensitive > and case-insensitive file system. This means we should have > some mechanism to allow for a Files list with foobar on > case-insensitive and foobar/fooBar o