So some packages with other arch cant be installed so there is
no need for dpkg to differentiate the name.
But i can install binutils-common in my system from many archs
so the suffix (thanks for the correction) helps to differentiate.
Thanks
Alexandros
On 18/11/19 12:53 μ.μ., Reco wrote:
Hi.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:35:56PM +0200, aprekates wrote:
Looking at dpkg -l output i noticed:
ii binutils 2.31.1-16 amd64 GNU assembler, linker and binary
utilities
ii binutils-common:amd64 2.31.1-16 amd64 Common files for the GNU
assembler, ..
why dpkg -l adds the :arch prefix in some package names and not in others?
If a package has "Multiarch: same" flag (binutils-common is one of
these) it means it can be installed several times with the different
architectures.
dpkg shows such packages with architecture suffix (not _prefix_), to
help the user distinguish packages with the same name, but different
architectures.
Packages that has "Multiarch: foreign" (i.e. architecture-independent
ones), or packages that lack Multiarch flag are shown without
architecture suffix.
"apt show" does not show Multiarch flag for some reason, but "dpkg -s"
does.
Reco
