Re: What is the status of multiarch?

[Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@fsing.rootsland.net>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 02:28:36PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> 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.

Well, I don’t have much multiarch stuff installed but it seems that 
„aptitude safe-upgrade” is broken if part of the upgrades needs 
„full-upgrade” (e.g. the evolution migration from unstable to testing):

minas-ithil:~# env LANG=C aptitude safe-upgrade
Resolving dependencies…
Unable to resolve dependencies for the upgrade: no solution found.
Unable to safely resolve dependencies, try running with –full-resolver

apt-get is still working as expected. But I’m still not sure when you 
should use aptitude and when apt-get.

	Stephan

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