Re: Re: dists/10.3 IDEAS,NONE,1.1 TODO,1.3,NONE

Hi Max.

If you do "fink build foo" then indeed foo-shlibs gets installed.
My understanding of the logic is this:  both Depends and BuildDepends
are checked for whether they are installed or not, when "fink build foo"
is processed.  Since foo-shlibs is not yet installed, the command
"fink install foo-shlibs" is processed before starting on "fink build foo".
Once that has finished, fink discovers that foo is already built, so it
has nothing else to do.

I'm afraid that attempting to fix this could break something else.  The
problems arise from the fact that foo depends on a particular version
of foo-shlibs.  All well and good, until you try to upgrade foo.  Then
you get into a situation that dpkg cannot handle, unless dpkg is fed
both foo and foo-shlibs at the same time.  In the code (or at least in
my limited understanding of it), this is closely tied to the issue of
whether foo-shlibs gets installed when foo is being built.

  -- Dave


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