Re: Multiarch interfaces: print foreign arches, pkgname I/O
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 14:37, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, David Kalnischkies wrote:
>> You talk only about output, but the title is "I/O" and i think it's unlikely
>> that dpkg has a different understanding of pkgname in output vs input,
>> so, you want to tell us that from now on we need to say (native=amd64):
>> dpkg --configure libc6:amd64 instead of
>> dpkg --configure libc6 , right?
>>
>> If that's really meant, i am very worried how release upgrades should
>> work, given that squeeze tools obviously don't know about this need…
>
> This proves that we can't make dpkg fail when it gets an unqualified
> package name in input. So in the alternatives that guillem proposed
> we have to pick "pkgname = pkgname:*" so that things keep working
> during upgrade when an old APT drives a new dpkg and that some M-A
> libraries are already installed.
So, i am able to (on native=amd64):
dpkg --unpack libc6_i386.deb # unpacking libc6:i386
dpkg --unpack libc6_amd64.deb # unpacking libc6:i386
dpkg --configure libc6 # configuring libc6:amd64 and libc6:i386
dpkg --configure libc6:i386 # does this fail?
dpkg --remove libc6 # removing libc6:i386 and libc6:amd64
?
Users will "love" you for this, given that it is completely inconsistent with
what front-ends will understand if the architecture is omitted…
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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