> On Aug 28, 2020, at 02:42, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <f...@snaggledworks.com>
> wrote:
>
> What's the upgrade process for the dpkg1.16 branch and the dists tree?
>
> Several packages are now essential (e.g. time-date-pm and xz) and will have
> to be moved from their present subfolders in dists to 'base'. Also, some base
> packages have newer versions than what's in the dpkg1.16 branch source (e.g.
> libiconv and texinfo). But the dpkg1.16 branch versions have needed changes
> that might be incompatible with older fink installs, so we can't just copy
> what's currently in dist to the dpkg1.16 branch, or push the dpkg1.16 branch
> versions directly into dists. Or are dpkg1.16 packages compatible with legacy
> dpkg?
>
> Hanspeter
>
>
At minimum, the most logical thing to do would be to update libiconv, texinfo,
et. al. in the dpkg1.16 branch and also apply the branch-specific changes -
i.e. merge them in a logical sense if not in a Git sense. I hate to say it,
but this might be a case for a new distro and clean reinstall rather than
update in place. I know we just did that for Catalina, but my impression is
that Big Sur is going to change a bunch of stuff.
--
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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