On 2012-05-20 11:27 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Slightly OT but I wanted to mention it for its similarity:
>
> One thing that should be tested and then documented prominently as yay
> or nay in the wheezy upgrade notes is wether one can cross-grade from
> i386 to amd64 using multiarch. Wether one can install apt/dpkg:amd64 and
> then migrate to a 64bit userspace.
Won't work in wheezy, apt does not support crossgrades¹. Making it a
release goal for wheezy+1 seems to be a good idea, but it's a long way
to get there.
Cheers,
Sven
¹ Replacing foo:i386 with foo:amd64 is done by removing foo:i386 and
then installing foo:amd64, which does not work for Essential packages.
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