Will old debs work with the new dpkg? Or is the deb compatibility broken
in both directions?
If we're going to need a new tree (called "11.0"?), what distributions
should we put into it? Obviously macOS 11.0. Should we also put 10.14.5
and 10.15 into it? These two share the same /usr/bin/perl (v5.18.4), but
it's different from 11.0 (v5.28.2). However, 11.0 has
/usr/bin/perl5.18(.4) as well. Is it worth (possible?) going down to
earlier system versions? 10.10-10.14 share the same system-perl (5.18.2)
Hanspeter
On 2020-08-28 11:13, Justin Hallett wrote:
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.
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TS
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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
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