Re: dpkg: multiarch symlink not present in fresh installs

2011-03-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > Architecture: all packages are treated the same as packages for the native > arch, right? Including having all their metadata stored in the directory True, I forgot about this. Thanks for the reminder. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer F

Re: dpkg: multiarch symlink not present in fresh installs

2011-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:19:20AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 01 Mar 2011, Guillem Jover wrote: > > As I mentioned on the IRC channel, and to Steve in particular when he > > mentioned the Ubuntu dpkg upload, the current db layout is defintely > > not the final one. It has several probl

Re: dpkg: multiarch symlink not present in fresh installs

2011-03-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 01 Mar 2011, Guillem Jover wrote: > As I mentioned on the IRC channel, and to Steve in particular when he > mentioned the Ubuntu dpkg upload, the current db layout is defintely > not the final one. It has several problems, mainly of fragility as you > point out. What's fragile? It's i

Re: dpkg: multiarch symlink not present in fresh installs

2011-03-01 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 14:41:47 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:36:24PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Mar 2011, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I noticed this > > > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/727106) while doing > > > a debootstrap test

Re: dpkg: multiarch symlink not present in fresh installs

2011-03-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:36:24PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 01 Mar 2011, Colin Watson wrote: > > I noticed this > > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/727106) while doing > > a debootstrap test of natty. I think we need to be consistent about the > > compatibility

Re: dpkg: multiarch symlink not present in fresh installs

2011-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Colin, following up on debian-dpkg@ since others might want to weigh in. On Tue, 01 Mar 2011, Colin Watson wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed this > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/727106) while doing > a debootstrap test of natty. I think we need to be consistent about the > co