Re: [fink-core] Fink 0.29.13 and case sensitive HFS+

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

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On 10/1/10 6:57 AM, Max Horn wrote:
> 
> Am 29.09.2010 um 14:16 schrieb Hanspeter Niederstrasser:
> 
>> On 9/29/10 4:19 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 29.09.2010 um 02:11 schrieb Hanspeter Niederstrasser:
>>>
>>>> "The package name. May contain lowercase letters, numbers and the
>>>> special characters '.', '+' and '-'. No underscores ('_'), no
>>>> capital letters. Required field."
>>>
>>> How can I make Fink recognise the file libotf-0.9.12RC.tar.gz as the
>>> source archive?
>>
>> I'm assuming you must be using %v or %r in the Source field.  If so, 
>> then just replace it with the literal 'RC' instead.  By the way, 
>> according to dpkg, 0.9.12rc is greater than 0.9.12, so when the final 
>> version is released, users won't be able to upgrade because Fink/dpkg 
>> will think they're at a never version.  Possible workarounds are to use 
>> 0.9.12release, or to put "rc" into the revision field, so it'll look 
>> like %v=0.9.12 %r=1.rc.1 and then bump %r to > 1 for the release version.
>>
>> See 'man dpkg' and look for "--compare-versions".
> 
> <daydream>And if we ever upgrade to a recent version of dpkg & apt and stuff, we could use the solution Debian implemented for this years ago, namely the tilde syntax: 0.9.12~rc comes before 0.9.12. It's easy to implement this in fink (I have a patch for that), but dpkg & apt also need to learn about it, and when I realized that I gave up work on this :/.</daydream>
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Max

There are updates in

http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fink/experimental/dazjorz/

But they need some more testing and tweaking (and possibly tweaking in
the fink code) to be ready for production.  For example, that version of
apt seems not to play well with UseBinaryDist.
- -- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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