Re: What is the status of multiarch?
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 02:28:36PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:20:05 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>
> > Hello Hans-J.,
> >
> > "Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:
> >> On my 64-bit system I am using only very few applications, which are
> >> still 32- bit. For example wine, skype, x-plane and a few others.
> >
> >> So, as my old configuration is still working fine, but I am always
> >> intending to improve my system, what is the best (debian)-way for my
> >> needs?
> >
> > It works quite nicely over here on a testing/sid system with the
> > following packages:
>
> (...)
>
> In the Spanish mailing list, a user reported a few days ago that he
> completely messed up his full wheezy system when he tried to install Wine
> in his 64-bits installation. Apparently, the library mix went so bad that
> he wanted to completely reinstall wheezy from scratch but this time using
> a 32-bits flavour because all the mess.
>
> I suggested him to open a bug report because there should no problems
> with multiarch, or at least not the kind of problems that lead the users
> to think in a complete OS reinstallation.
>
> To be sincere, I'm a bit reluctant about the multiarch system. I would
> prefer playing with it on virtual/testing machines and not yet over
> production systems.
In my experience, Multiarch is usable, but still a little buggy.
I run sid and update about daily using aptitude. There were a few days
when wine-unstable's packaging was a bit broken, but it seems to have
settled down now. From that, I learned that aptitude's resolver isn't
quite ready for multiarch just yet; it works in the majority of cases,
but sometimes it wants to remove all your i386 packages and you have to
fix (usually hold for a few days) the broken package yourself.
But that's the joy of sid.
To the OP, I would suggest that, if a 32-bit chroot works for you, then
there's probably no need to switch: you get that added security of
running the program in a chroot.
Alternatively, if you want to switch,
http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO should be what you need.
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