Re: How to install wine on debian/amd64/sid?

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Jaime Ochoa Malagón <chptma@gmail.com> writes:

>                how many votes are against ia32-libs transitional?
>
>
> doesn't matter, it is not needed anymore if ia32-apt-get is working 100% and
> nspluginwrapper could choose between both ia32-libs and ia32-apt-get
> Â 

I've send a patch to mhy (the new ia32-libs maintainer should he ever
get around to upload) that will change the ia32-libs shlibs file so
packages build against ia32-libs would depend on ia32-lib... |
ia32-libs. If sources are rebuild against that then a transitional
ia32-libs is truely obsolete. But it still means a transition period
that is far from over.

>      is wine to be removed from the amd64 repos?
>      
>      whit the exception of wine the important ia32-packages usualy are
>      external ones and they use to depend from ia32-libs and are happy
>      with the transitional...
>
>
> The use of ia32-apt-get becomes obsolete this packages because usually anyone
> could get the i386 version...
> Â 

Indeed. It just means manualy swaping amd64 packages for i386 for
those. Not perfect.
                          
>      at this moment I prefer to have a previous version of ia32-apt-get
>      (20)Â 
>
>
> Not any more and neither then, while "growing up" of ia32-apt-get the
> ia32-libs got back to my system followed by "amd64"-versions of my
> ia32-packages installed with an acient ia32-apt-get and I got confuse all over
> again...
> Until today that I after a lot of trials, rm, grep etc, I been able to locate
> the /etc/ia32-apt directory and configure again my sources.list, by the way
> that information is not in doc/README.Debian
> Thanks again for ia32-apt-get Goswin...
> Â 

It is in NEWS. I forgot to save the README when I build the package
and didn't notice till I closed the editor days later.

>                          I also prefer the wrapper over apt-get (could it
>      be optional in the package config?)
>
>
> That's true even now...
> Â 

Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> had the idea to create links for
apt-get, aptitude, dpkg in /usr/local/bin back to the ia32-*
binaries. Unfortunately the wrappers don't use the full path to
/usr/bin/dpkg so they loop back to the /usr/local/bin/dpkg (Fixed
for the next upload). I will pick up that idea and combine it with
what ccache does. People that want the wrapper under the original name
can then add

  PATH=/usr/share/ia32-apt-get:$PATH

to their ${SHELL}rc and/or sudoers file or drop links in
/usr/local/bin. Whatever they prefer. I think this will be a great
solution for both people that want to keep their original
apt/aptitude/dpkg and people wanting wrappers.

MfG
        Goswin