Re: multiarch status update

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 06:12:42PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:

> And what if dpkg knows about it and handle arch-independant packages in
> a different way?

There is nothing dpkg can do. Package-1.0 has a hardcoded reference to
/usr/share/foo/bar (provided by some other package) and expects it to be
version 1. Package-2.0 has a hardcoded reference to /usr/share/foo/bar
and expects it to be version 2 which is not compatible with version 1.
If you install package-1.0 and package-2.0 simultaneously one of them
_will_ break.

Gabor

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