Re: [fink-core] moving the crypto tree

[Max H. <ma...@qu...>]

Am 29.06.2010 um 04:51 schrieb Benjamin Reed:

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> On 6/28/10 10:35 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
>> Dear fink-core and friends,
>> 
>> For various reasons, I am contemplating moving the crypto tree so 
>> that it becomes a subdirectory of main, just like base, devel, etc.
>> In other words, the contents of crypto/finkinfo would be moved to 
>> main/finkinfo/crypto . I think that move itself could be made
>> without causing any trouble -- does anybody see any difficulties with
>> it?
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> Nope, sounds good to me.

Same here. Though, I have to wonder on whether this also implies any policy changes? Would we still over -ssl and non-ssl variants of things?

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>> We could then *eliminate* stable/crypto and unstable/crypto from the 
>> Trees line in fink.conf, and make some corresponding changes to
>> apt's configuration. This is trickier, but if stable/crypto and 
>> unstable/crypto just became empty directories I think things would 
>> continue to work without such a change. Right?
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> Yeah, as long as there's an empty directory, it should be fine.

I guess a README should be put in there, which explains were everything went. This has the second beneficial effect of making sure that cvs' prune option does not remove the then-empty directory when doing a "cvs up -P", which could potentially cause trouble otherwise.

Bye,
Max