Re: dpkg install-info bug

okay today the temp finally dipped bellow 30C so i was able to remove the window bar for a bit (G4 PB) and install 10.5/ppc with Xcode 3.1.4 on it.

A few minor changes later and we have dpkg 1.1.6.4.3 bootstrap with new install-info setup all ready to go form my git fork, so it now works on 10.5/ppc and 10.7/x86_64

I think we are at the point where we can seriously discuss the switch and update of dpkg, install-info and bootstrap to these new versions.

Once this phase is done I'll work on apt since 0.5.4 isn't really recommended for dpkg > 1.15, but it does work I have been using it none stop since I got it working.
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On 2012-07-11, at 10:06 AM, TheSin wrote:

> Okay I finished up depends in my 10.7 bootstrap, it has been tested and works.
> 
> I do require some help with 10.4 bootstrapping though, I don't have access to 10.!7, and as such I'm just adding things there, I have no idea if objtools, and the new dpkg even compile on 10.!7, if anyone has time to test and report back that would due much appreciated, I'm trying to get my hands on a second system so I can try and find 10.6 to test with but I know I won't be able to find a ppc setup at all.
> 
> Everything required for the new dpkg is in my bootstrap git fork or my exp dir.  the binutils in there is what needs to be added to the 10.4 branch so that objtools can coexist there.
> 
> I'd really like to try and move on upgrading dpkg before it looses steam and my fork falls to far behind, so the more testing the better if anyone can.
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> On 2012-07-10, at 1:48 PM, TheSin wrote:
> 
>> I just finished adding an updated texinfo package in my exp as well that will work with the new dpkg, I've just asked aka to test it with the old dpkg to make sure it all works, since we are shuffling install-info's location and such I want to make sure they don't need each other.  Hopefully this will be a step towards fixing everything up.
>> 
>> the version in my exp I manually install a trigger file, if it gets added before dpkg it can just be removed, I was using it for testing since the Triggers field only exists in my bootstrap fork.
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>> TS
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>> On 2012-07-10, at 2:02 AM, Max Horn wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 10.07.2012, at 04:53, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 7/9/12 6:52 PM, Max Horn wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> Or, you could push it to a branch of fink master and people could check
>>>>>> it out and test it. :-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Well, only for the bootstrap dpkg.info -- we don't  have git for dists yet, unfortunately... This, together with the lack of unstable, apparently is causing TheSin/Justing and Sjors some pain with dpkg -- it's a bit hard to come up with a good transition strategy to a new dpkg if there is no good way to get a select people to easily test the changed .info files...
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Max
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah, true.  OTOH bootstrapping a new Fink is a handy option to avoid
>>>> disrupting a production system.
>>> 
>>> Fully agreed. I do plan to prepare a suitable git tree & pull request; that way people can test the patch. The pull request is useful even if it should in the end not get merged as such.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I also plan to get a closer look at Sjors & TheSin's work... Is there a (tentative) pull request for that yet? What about the selfupdate-git code?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Max
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