Bart Trojanowski wrote: > On a 64 bit kernel with 32 bit binary emulation support, you can run > aything. However, when using a 32 bit kernel, one must have at least a > 32 bit modutils. Running a 64 bit insmod, which I had the displeasure > of doing once, is disastrous on a 32 bit kernel. > > There may be other instances where a package (ex: the i386 kernel) would > require another to provide a particular binary variant (ex: the i386 > modutils). > > Granted this is a small problem. This kind of thing is why I think that when dpkg gets support for installing multiple architectures on a single machine, dependencies should also get support for architectures added to them in some form or another. Possibly like this: Depends: package (version) [arch] There are other more flexible solutions involving virtual packages, which have been proposed by Marcus Brinkmann before. -- see shy jo
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