I’m almost positive all the packages are compare (texinfo might have an extra split) but you can not put dpkg into the 10.5 tree since it’ll break deb compat. This branch needs a new tree then it can be added. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos!
> On Aug 28, 2020, at 9:59 AM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > fink-core mailing list > fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net> > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core > <http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core> > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-core > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-core>
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