On 4/26/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have a chroot that is simple: > > 'apt-get install foobar' in the chroot > dpkg --force-architecture -i /chroot/var/cache/apt/foobar*deb
Yes, that is a start. But I don't think that any --force-* options should be exposed to the user. Basically, dpkg should not be exposed. So we would need a wrapper to handle this. > The multiarch proposal works without chroot and always works. Having > the libs in chroots and the binary in / won't work with plugins or > libs that load other files at runtime. I had a closer look at the multiarch proposal, and it does not solve those problems either. It only states that they should be treated on a "case to case" basis. Still, it needs to be worked out some way. > All this is just bandaid till sarge is out of the way and true > multiarch can be uploaded to debian. Well, I am not sure that multiarch is going to be so much easier, or so much different in the end. But I agree, once sarge is out of the way, things will certainly move forward again. Thomas
