On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Sven Joachim wrote: > > dpkg supports the cross-grade, you can tell it to install a foreign > > package when a native one is already installed. > > > > So the goal is to allow the user to cross-grade his system with > > a "dpkg -i dpkg_1.16.2_<foreignarch>.deb" (modulo the need to pre-install > > the predependencies). > > With dpkg from your pu/multiarch/full branch, this does not work: > | # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc-bin_2.13-22_amd64.deb > | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc-bin_2.13-22_amd64.deb > (--install): > | libc-bin:amd64 2.13-22 (Multi-Arch: foreign) is not co-installable with > libc-bin:i386 2.13-22 (Multi-Arch: foreign) which is currently installed
Hum, right, it does not work currently. I mixed because I called cross-grade some tests in the test-suite that ensure that we can switch between various kind of M-A packages. So this is currently not supported "as-is" and it would require supplementary work. It could be fixed though and made to work with a supplementary --force option. Sorry for the mis-information. -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111212151715.gb30...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
