[noctool-devel] Re: image.asd fixes

Ingvar ingvar at hexapodia.net
Thu Jun 12 14:39:30 UTC 2008


> Hi Ingvar,
> 
> While using ASDF-INSTALL to get a new noctool setup going, I found that 
> the image package used strings instead of symbols for the packages that it 
> depends on.  This confuses the heck out of asdf-install (but seems to work 
> OK for ASDF - HMMM... sounds like it might be a bug in ASDF-INSTALL, 
> but... well, I don't want to spend the time reading the spec to determine 
> that ;P :)
> 
> I've attached a modified version of image.asd from image-0.6 - the changes 
> are by no means profound :)
> 
> Using the attached image.asd made my asdf-install go very smoothly. :)

If you look at noctool.asd, it too is using strings instead of symbols. I 
suspect it's more of an issue with ASDF-INSTALL than with the ASDF system 
definition, myself.

//Ingvar




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