On 2019-08-06 16:45 +0200, Jens Reyer wrote: > Hi all, > > is there a way for two different, arch-specific packages (from the same > source package) to share an identical file (script)? Only if those two arch-specific packages have the same name - i.e. they are the 'same' package from dpkg's point of view, just arch-specific variants of it. > This works for "Multi-Arch: same" packages: > $ dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/libwine/changelog.Debian.gz > libwine:i386, libwine:amd64: /usr/share/doc/libwine/changelog.Debian.gz > > > $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/wine/wineserver > wine32:i386, wine64:amd64: /usr/lib/wine/wineserver If I understand correctly you want 'wine32' and 'wine64' (different packages) to share a file. dpkg has special magic to notice that files in multiarch:same packages which are in fact identical may be installed over each other without complaining about clashes, and mark tham as being owned by all the install arch variants, and not remove them until the last version of the package is removed. Otherwise a file is always owned by exactly one package. So if you could arrange to just have a 'wine' binary that was 32 or 64 as required then you could make this work as you want. Otherwise you need both those packages to depend on another wine-startup or whatever that contains the shared file. (I think - I admit I haven't fully groked the wine package layout) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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