Re: [fink-core] upgrade process for big sur/dpkg1.16

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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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>> On Aug 28, 2020, at 9:59 AM, Alexander Hansen
>> <ale...@gm...> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Aug 28, 2020, at 02:42, Hanspeter Niederstrasser
>>> <fi...@sn...> 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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