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List:       crux
Subject:    Re: Errors during Compilation
From:       "Martin Gunger" <martin () gunger ! nu>
Date:       2002-06-22 19:24:01
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From: "Markus Ackermann" <maol@symlink.ch>
To: "Crux List" <crux@fukt.bth.se>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: Errors during Compilation


> On Fri 21.06.2002, 10:35:36 +0200, Florian Weber said in public:
> >On Friday 21 June 2002 04:40, Colin Tree wrote:
> >> How about something like
> >> # depend=(package1>=1.2.3 package2=4.5 \
> >> # package3>=3.45 etc)
> >
> >Some thoughts:
> >- - keeping dependey stuff in comments is good
>
> as long as it's not officially used in the pkgutils.
>
> >- - should releases (1.2.3-rel) also be taken into account?
>
> Currently they aren't. On purpose, because I wanted to keep it simple, and
> because in CRUX we just have one version of every package anyway. If
another
> package depends on software-x.y and CRUX features software-x.z instead,
the
> package must be changed so it can be compiled against -x.z. That's what
> we're currently doing with libdb, where we have db-4.x instead of db-3.y.
>
> If they're not binary compatible choose the newer stable version (i.e.
kde3
> vs. kde2, devfs vs. /dev, tmpfs vs. /tmp, etc.). CRUX is about having the
> newest and fastest software too...
>
> >- - what if I want to specify minimum *and* maximum version?
> >  (that's not purely theoretical, cf. compiler needs for KDE)
>
> That won't come before we have at least a simple version checking ;)
>
> Markus.
>

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