Re: Results of 2014 Fink buildworld run on 10.9

So I assume that means the desired behavior of BDO packages having a Dep on
other BDO packages currently won't pass validation in fink, right?


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:25 AM, TheSin <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have always said and stand by that BDO packages should be allowed to
> have a Dep on other BDO packages.
>
> So -dev packages can dep on other -dev packages.  It’s be a slight bending
> of the rule but still keep it close to the original and it would solve lots
> of issues.  I have brought this up a few times in the past.
> ---
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> On Aug 20, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Jack Howarth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > The buildworld has also exposed a major flaw in the r-base* packaging.
> The builds logs for…
> >
> >
> http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/logs/cran-slam-r30.log
> >
> > and
> >
> >
> http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/logs/cran-rjava-r31.log
> >
> > show the missing dependencies on gcc49-compilers and libicu48-dev (among
> others from
> > /sw/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/etc/Makeconf's linkage of
> > LIBS =  -lpcre -llzma -lbz2 -lz -lm -liconv -licuuc -licui18n
> >
> > The debian developers solve this in their r-base-dev package with
> dependencies on the required *-dev packages…
> >
> > https://packages.debian.org/sid/r-base-dev
> >
> > Unfortunately the use of BuildDependsOnly: True in the r-base*-dev
> split-off prohibits this in fink. So it would appear that the only solution
> is to explicitly add those missing *-dev dependencies to the BuildDepends
> in every single cran package in libs/rmods. Ugh.
> >      Jack
> > ps It makes one wonder if fink couldn't be modified to special case the
> BuildDependsOnly: True to disable it for the *-dev split-off itself. That
> is that Depends on *-dev which use BuildDependsOnly: True are ignored for
> the case of their presence in a *-dev which has already has
> BuildDependsOnly: True itself since that will recursively force the
> BuildDependsOnly: True on the other -dev packages to be honored despite
> their presence in the Depends of r-rbase*-dev.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/out/filters.xml
> > >
> > > but this gives me a 404 error.
> >
> > That's fixed now.
> >
> > > In any case, I fixed some of the issues you pointed out (in sdl2,
> fflas-ffpack, mc, the-silver-searcher) but now am mostly left with
> "failures/project/insufficient_permission" failures, but I am not quite
> sure what the failure indicates. Perhaps this:
> > >
> > >    cp: /sw/share/info/dir.bak: Permission denied
> > >
> > > I think this is caused by the install-info tool and the fact that the
> affected packages (e.g. grep) use the "InfoDocs" fields. I don't think a
> package author can do much about that, can they? As such, perhaps you could
> check if the above line is the only one with "permission denied", and in
> that case, demote the "failure" to a "warning" ?
> >
> > Yeah, I've downgraded those to a warning.  fink-bld takes care of any
> > writing being done directly into %p.
> >
> > Hanspeter
> >
> >
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