Re: amd64 as default architecture
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2012-05-20 11:27 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
>> Slightly OT but I wanted to mention it for its similarity:
>>
>> One thing that should be tested and then documented prominently as yay
>> or nay in the wheezy upgrade notes is wether one can cross-grade from
>> i386 to amd64 using multiarch. Wether one can install apt/dpkg:amd64 and
>> then migrate to a 64bit userspace.
>
> Won't work in wheezy, apt does not support crossgradesน.
There is no real reason to require apt to do the heavy lifting here.
It would be nice, but it is a one-time action, so a specialized tool wouldn't
hurt muscle memory too much. Install essentials and apt and you should
be good to go to proceed as usual, just with a different architecture…
Even most essentials are easy to crossgrade, the only really difficult one
is dpkg and it's dependencies as you have to take care of not breaking it
while it crossgrades itself.
(I think it is unlikely that apt will get support for that soon, if at all,
given that it quiet easily becomes a quiet complicated situation in
general in a codearea which isn't short on complexity already.
And that just for the "once in a blue moon" encounter of a crossgrade?)
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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