Re: dpkg 1.16.8
Hi!
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:27:44 -0600, TheSin wrote:
> Hi my name is Justin and I'm a fink (http://projectfink.org)
> developer/maintainer and I have been trying to keep dpkg current
> in fink,
Ah nice! I've been keeping an eye on downstreams, but on fink, dpkg
seems to have been stuck on an ancient version (1.10.x or similar),
is there something newer where you are keeping patches or a git tree
for the modified dpkg (I've checked the CVS and github trees)?
> and I have been having a few issues with update-alternatives
> since 1.16.4.3.
I think that might have been the version where I fixed most of the
portabilty problems with Mac OS X, the reamaining case was this one
you are seeing, but never got around fixing it. This is also
happening on Gentoo, so I was meaning to fix it for 1.16.x anyway.
> I was hoping someone might be able to help shed some
> light on this cause I can not figure out why it's failing and it seems
> like it's one line behind on every fail. If there is any more info
> I can provide pleas let me know I'd like to resolve this ASAP.
The problem is in the test case which is bogus, now that the test
suite takes into account the correct paths for some of the executables
depending on the system, previously they were just hardcoded to match
the paths on Debian systems, so they sort incorrectly. I've started
fixing this locally but I'm too tired to finish it up right now, I'll
post a patch tomorrow so that you can apply it before a release with
it is made, but for now if it's really urgent I'd recomment just
commenting the «is()» call inside the “# verify that the administrative
file is sorted properly“ code block (currently line 263 on git master).
thanks,
guillem
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