Re: TexInfo requires perl 5282 on Big Sur

> On Sep 23, 2021, at 7:17 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 9/21/21 8:55 PM, Scott Hannahs via Fink-users wrote:
>> Note: there is a build note that shows that texinfo is specficaly prevented from using system perl
>>  dmacks: perlvarianted because it uses XS internally
>> But this may be ok for use on Big Sur?
>>> On Sep 21, 2021, at 6:50 PM, Scott Hannahs via Fink-users <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> When installing (or updating) the texinfo package, fink finds a dependency to perl 5282.  Perl is version 5302 on Big Sur and there is no perl 5282 package.  Unfortunatatly a large number of packages depend on texinfo.
>>> 
>>> % fink update texinfo
>>> Information about 11656 packages read in 1 seconds.
>>> The package 'texinfo' will be built and installed.
>>> Reading build dependency for texinfo-6.8-401...
>>> Reading dependency for texinfo-6.8-401...
>>> WARNING: While resolving dependency "system-perl5282" for package "texinfo-6.8-401", package "system-perl5282" was not found.
>>> Can't resolve dependency "system-perl5282" for package "texinfo-6.8-401" (no matching packages/versions found)
>>> Exiting with failure.
>>> %
>>> Unfortunately there is no maintainer and it is a complex package that I am hesitant to start modifying.
>>> 
>>> -Scott
> 
> Isn't this part of the same problem you had earlier this month that Fink still thinks you're on Dist:11.0 (which covers macOS11.0-11.2) and not 11.3 (which covers 11.3-11.5) ?
> 
> Hanspeter

Well the rest of the builds seem to be happy with using 5302.  I will do a re-install, but it may be a problem of my moving from 11.5.2 to 11.6 which is breaking fink?

-Scott

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