Re: big sur: no package found for specification 'intltool40'!

Scott Hannahs via Fink-users <[email protected]>
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> On Jun 3, 2021, at 05:10, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> You have a slightly outdated version of my patched tree. If you go into the directory where you did the original `./bootstrap` to install my patched tree, run `git pull` to get the latest patches, then run `./inject.pl` to update your installed Fink in /opt/sw3. Once that's done, Fink should know to look for perl5.30 (and not perl5.30.2) with macOS 11.3.
>> Hanspeter,
>> Is there a chance, timeline to get these merged into the master?  There are a bunch of folks using fink on Big Sur and even though there are rough spots it would allow easier work on the system and more rapid updates.
>> -Scott
> 
> Getting it merged is being worked on, but there's one major bug left over before it can go into master. Unfortunately, if you have a previous (non dpkg1.16) Fink install and update to the current dpkg1.16 branch, the dpkg database gets corrupted and Fink ceases to work.
> 
> A clean install of a new Fink using the dpkg1.16 branch (what you've checked out) works perfectly fine. The only failure point (that we know of) is during an upgrade, but that's critical.
> 
> Hanspeter

Thanks, that is good to know and I understand that is sort of a showstopper.  The internals of the dpkg database are beyond me at the moment.  Thanks for your work on this.

-Scott

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