Re: arch prefix in packages names.

[aprekates <aprekates@posteo.net>]

So some packages with other arch cant be installed so there is
no need for dpkg to differentiate the name.

But i can install binutils-common in my system from many archs
so the suffix (thanks for the correction) helps to differentiate.

Thanks

Alexandros


On 18/11/19 12:53 μ.μ., Reco wrote:
> 	Hi.
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:35:56PM +0200, aprekates wrote:
> > Looking at dpkg -l output i noticed:
> >
> > ii  binutils   2.31.1-16    amd64        GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities
> > ii  binutils-common:amd64      2.31.1-16  amd64        Common files for the GNU assembler, ..
> >
> > why dpkg -l adds the :arch prefix in some package names and not in others?
> If a package has "Multiarch: same" flag (binutils-common is one of
> these) it means it can be installed several times with the different
> architectures.
> dpkg shows such packages with architecture suffix (not _prefix_), to
> help the user distinguish packages with the same name, but different
> architectures.
> Packages that has "Multiarch: foreign" (i.e. architecture-independent
> ones), or packages that lack Multiarch flag are shown without
> architecture suffix.
>
> "apt show" does not show Multiarch flag for some reason, but "dpkg -s"
> does.
>
> Reco