On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:47:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... > Just to follow up... yes you can migrate from i386 to amd64, but what > a royal pain... > > lots of manual dpkg work... jumping back and forth between new and > old install and chrooting into the new install to get things set > up. But it's up and I'm posting from it right now. So save your energy > and just install it for real... It'll probably take me several *more* > hours to finish patching it all up not to mention decruftifying it... >
and to follow *that* up... turns out it needn't be as difficult as I made it. I carry /var on a separate partition which means when I remounted /var under the new 64bit system dpkg thought everything was installed just fine, but of course it wasn't. so my subsequent dpkg --set-selections call was a major problem. Anyway, word to the wise, when migrating like this, only take vital parts of /var (like maybe /var/spool or /var/mail or whatever) and definitely do *not* take the existing apt portions of /var. Instead copy over the versions from the debootstrap install so that you get a consistent archive. A
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