Re: I just created fink/fink-distributions on github as a repository for distributions

Daniel Johnson <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:25:33 -0400
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> On Jun 10, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jun 10, 2015, at 09:53, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 10, 2015, at 09:50, Daniel Macks <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:34:05 -0700, Alexander Hansen
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> No surprise there. :-)
>>>> 
>>>> I was going to initialize the 10.9-libc++ distribution, but then I
>>>> got to thinking about whether it might not be a bad plan to use a cvs
>>>> import of the 10.7 tree and then rename the directory, so that we can
>>>> preserve the history.
>>>> 
>>>> Thoughts?
>>> 
>>> I do not support making a new distro subdir by simply cloning the old.
>>> This is a great chance to prune out lots of old crap that doesn't
>>> build, stop relying on system hacks like X11 symlink, stop carrying
>>> forward -shlibs stub packages from old libversions, etc. However,
>>> cloning the old into a holding-pen in git (preserving history) and then
>>> using that for selective manual moving into the live distro still
>>> within git gives us history linkage. New dist would essentially be a
>>> fork or branch.
>>> 
>>> dan
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Daniel Macks
>>> [email protected]
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Sure, that makes sense.
> 
> Well, maybe. ;-)  I’m not exactly sure about how this would be implemented, since I believe the selfupdate-git code only pulls from master.  Perhaps we’d have to tweak that during the development phase, and have the to-be processed stuff be in a non-master branch.

That can easily be changed in SelfUpdate/git.pm. You’d have to change the repo from my mirror to the official one anyway. There is another issue though. If we make a new repo now for 10.9+, it will quickly diverge from the existing one. It won’t be easy to merge them later and could become a bit of a nightmare for maintainers. What is the plan for distros going forward? Are we just going to freeze <=10.7 and leave them in cvs while 10.9+ goes to git? If so, we need to do that now before adding distros or we’re in for headaches later. We’re going to have to decide this before doing anything else.

Daniel

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