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List:       fink-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fink-devel] Invariant splitoffs of variant packages
From:       "David R. Morrison" <drm () math ! duke ! edu>
Date:       2005-12-30 20:42:57
Message-ID: ADA873D8-480D-4ACA-94F3-E1EEF5318DD6 () math ! duke ! edu
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I agree.  It should be foo-py%type_pkg[python]-doc or something similar.

   -- Dave


On Dec 29, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Daniel Macks wrote:

> Okay, let's resolve this...
>
>   Package: foo-py%type_pkg[python]
>   Version: 1
>   Revision: 1
>   Type: python (2.3 2.4)
>   SplitOff: <<
>     Package: foo-doc
>   <<
>
> SplitOff packages are first-class package objects internally, with
> pointers that link parent and children and sibling packages. Fink and
> Debian use "package-version-revision" as a unique key for a package.
>
> In CVS HEAD, a single "foo-1-1" package object is created in the
> database and it is arbitrarily assigned as the child of one of the
> foo-pyXX of which it is a SplitOff. That means it is functionally
> broken for all other foo-pyXY variants because foo-py23's child's
> parent might be foo-py24 instead. As a result, the foo-py23 build
> process tries to form foo-doc, foo-doc has incorrect data for that
> situation (%I, %D, and %b point to the non-existent foo-py24 paths,
> etc.).
>
> In released versions of fink, the above .info fragment reportedly
> works correctly, and we have a few packages that have this construct.
>
> As an under-the-hood core guy, it doesn't make sense to me that this
> should ever work or be supported, but I can see why a maintainer would
> expect it to work. Should we support it? Can we support it? Should we
> say "make a separate .info file for foo-doc" instead?
>
> dan
>
> -- Daniel Macks
> dmacks@netspace.org
> http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks
>
>
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