Re: Upcoming Debian multiarch support (amd64, sparc64, s390x, mips64) [affects sarge slightly]

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> writes:

> On 13-Jan-04, 10:32 (CST), Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.cx> wrote: 
> > Ummm... Not only for commercial non-free binary-only. Remember there
> > are many unofficial apt mirrors, mostly built for i386. Non-technical
> > users might want to install that packages on their AMD64 systems.
> 
> Non-technical users might want to install those unofficial i386 packages
> on their powerpc, too, but it ain't gonna work.

Dpkg won't let them whereas i386 on amd64 works fine now.

MfG
        Goswin