Fwd: GnuCash packaging

[Ben Greenfield]

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> From: Ben Greenfield <ben at cogs.com>
> Date: January 3, 2009 9:24:57 AM EST
> To: Anders F Björklund <afb at macports.org>
> Subject: Re: GnuCash packaging
>
>
> On Jan 3, 2009, at 3:39 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:
>
>> Charles Day wrote:
>>
>>> Well I tried the following workaround for ticket 10881, but  
>>> macports started trying to include the wrong dependencies. For  
>>> example, it tried to include dependencies based on X11 when I  
>>> specified gnucash +no_x11 (see gnome-desktop at the end as an  
>>> example).
>>>
>>> In addition, it seems that some dependencies are required to be  
>>> built into their own destroots in advance (see the error message  
>>> for aqbanking below).
>>>
>>> So I'm not sure how I should try again to make it work.
>>
>> Disable autoclean in macports.conf, uninstall and clean everything,  
>> and start over ?
>>
>> The "force destroot" workaround requires that you do it for every  
>> single port,
>> including all dependencies and making sure all needed variants are  
>> included...
>>
>> "Given that this has been around for 2 years, is this considered a  
>> bug or a feature?"
>
> I think it is a requirement and should be documented as such.
>
> It seems pretty straight forward if you want to use mdmg or pkg on  
> needs to build with autoclean disabled in macports.conf
>
> The next question is what else does it effect. Without doing any  
> research these are my guesses.
>
> dmg, dpkg, mpkg, ...
>
> Still Digging,
>
> Ben
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> --anders
>>
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