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Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?



Emanoil Kotsev:
> Jochen Schulz wrote:
> 
>> Don't you read the replies to your mails? There is no way to tell apt
>> which architecture to fetch packages for. Not in sources.list nor
>> anywhere else.
> 
> You mean that if I say 
> 
>         debootstrap --verbose lenny testdeb/
> 
> There is no way to let it know that I want amd64... I've got the point!

No, that's not what I said. debootstrap has an '--arch' option which you
can use. But *after that* (or after a regular installation using d-i),
there is no (officially supported, efficient) way to switch the
architecture of the installation.

J.
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