Re: [Fink-devel] Phased decommissioning of the unstable tree.

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

Am 04.10.2011 um 07:18 schrieb Daniel Macks:

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>> I'll take that as a 'no', and we can go ahead and start Phase 1. 
>> 
>> We are not currently freezing the CVS tree. 
>> 
>> Maintainers should audit their packages in 10.4 and check for items
>> that are identical in 10.4/stable and 10.4/unstable. 
> 
> I just did a full sweep of 10.4/unstable and (with the exception of a 
> few corner cases) purged it of all .info that exactly matched the one 
> in 10.4/stable (and also the parallel-named .patch if there was one for 
> the in-sync .info).

Thanks!

> I did no testing at all, so if it *was* in stable 
> and somehow broken, it still is just as broken, and I also didn't look 
> at any changed .info, so if it was broken in stable and fixed in 
> unstable or in 10.7 it's still that same way too. 

The semi-automatic move of packages from unstable to stable caused some collateral damage in some cases. Namely if multiple .info files shared a single patch file, and some of the .info files and the .patch were moved to stable, but the other .info file(s) were not moved. Example:


/sw/fink/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/gcc46.info
/sw/fink/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/gcc46.patch
/sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/10.4-EOL/languages/gcc46-10.4.info
/sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/10.4-EOL/languages/gcc46.patch
/sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/languages/gcc46-x86_64.info

Result: gcc46-x86_64.info now does not validate nor build anymore. There is at least one more example:

Error: can't find patchfile "./unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/r-cran-sp.patch"

Also, one "reverse" case:

Validating package file ./stable/main/finkinfo/database/sqlite3-x86_64.info...
Error: can't find patchfile "./stable/main/finkinfo/database/sqlite3.patch"



Cheers,
Max