Re: x32 port bootstrap is uploaded
Once upon a time, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Can I also just add the above Debian repo, do --add-architecture,
> and start replacing some packages? How can I for example, replace
> perl, on a running server?
That should work, as long as you make sure to exclude x32 from the
main Debian repo. i.e. make /etc/apt/sources.list look something
like:
deb [ arch=amd64,i386 ] http://http.debian.net/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb [ arch=x32 ] http://87.98.215.228/debian/ sid main byhand partial
In the case of perl, I'm not sure how well it will work in practice,
given that it would have to cross-grade all the arch-dependent perl
packages at the same time. So you might have to help "apt-get install
perl:x32" with some more packages, and depending on how many of the
dependencies support multi-arch or not, it might end up deleting more
than you'd want. Plus, since I don't see any Multi-Arch: foreign tag
on the perl package currently, things depending on perl will probably
also need cross-grading or removing. (And I don't know if such a
Multi-Arch tag would be a good idea, depending on how it would
interact with the perlapi-* virtual dependency.)
--
Daniel Schepler
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