Re: Tested switching to new 10.9-libcxx tree

Daniel Johnson <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:26:57 -0400

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> On Sep 25, 2015, at 1:14 PM, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There are a couple of relatively minor hiccups:
> 
> 1)  You would have to use “fink selfupdate” twice:  once to update fink, and once to download the 10.9-libcxx package descriptions.
> 2)  The locally-build .deb collection gets orphaned (downloaded .debs from the bindist remain accessible), so we would need to handle that.
> Since changing distributions for an OS X version has been a rare occurrence, with only   10.2 -> 10.2-gcc3.3 and 10.4-transitional -> 10.4 before now, and because package rebuilds aren’t required for this transition, my thought was that we could just provide a run-once-manually helper script to move the .debs to the right place, reconstitute the /sw/fink/debs symlinks, and do a scanpackages to regenerate the local Packages.gz for apt.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> If there are no objections, I’d like to switch the master fink branch on github over to using this tree in preparation for the 10.11 release.
> 
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison

That sounds fine to me.

Daniel

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