Re: Multiarch interfaces: print foreign arches, pkgname I/O
Hi,
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011, Guillem Jover wrote:
> * Multi-arch enabled frontends should always use arch qualified names
> as dpkg input for possibly ambiguous package names, to cleanly support
> a distinct native architecture between dpkg and frontend, and make
> possible cross-grading. This means that “M-A: same” need to be always
> arch-qualified on input to dpkg. Non “M-A: same” foreign arch
> packages do not need to be arch-qualified, as their usage on dpkg
> is never ambiguous, there will always be only one installed, but
> they could get arch-qualified, that should never be a problem.
Yeah, there are cases where it's best to arch-qualify packages... for
example you try to upgrade from a non "M-A: same" to a "M-A: same"
package of another architecture.
I gave the example of the test-suite where we want to be sure that the non
"M-A: same" has really been fully replaced and that dpkg no longer
considers it installed.
> * During an upgrade to a multi-arch dpkg using a multi-arch enabled
> frontend, the frontend cannot pass over arch-qualified pkgnames
> to dpkg. It must verify if it can do so first by checking the
> «dpkg --assert-multi-arch» exit code (as per my previous mail).
I don't know how APT in squeeze behaves but the main problem pointed out
so far is rather that it would use non-arch qualified package to refer to
"M-A: same" packages of the native arch already installed and that dpkg
should not blow up on this.
> If we can agree so far, I'll send my other last part regarding pkgname
> input.
Go ahead ! :-)
Cheers,
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