Re: amd64 porters IRC meeting: preparations for sarge
On 4/26/05, Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> If you have a chroot that is simple:
>
> 'apt-get install foobar' in the chroot
> dpkg --force-architecture -i /chroot/var/cache/apt/foobar*deb
Yes, that is a start. But I don't think that any --force-* options
should be exposed to the user. Basically, dpkg should not be exposed.
So we would need a wrapper to handle this.
> The multiarch proposal works without chroot and always works. Having
> the libs in chroots and the binary in / won't work with plugins or
> libs that load other files at runtime.
I had a closer look at the multiarch proposal, and it does not solve
those problems either. It only states that they should be treated on a
"case to case" basis. Still, it needs to be worked out some way.
> All this is just bandaid till sarge is out of the way and true
> multiarch can be uploaded to debian.
Well, I am not sure that multiarch is going to be so much easier, or
so much different in the end. But I agree, once sarge is out of the
way, things will certainly move forward again.
Thomas
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