On 30 March 2013 06:33, Mikko Rasa <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.9.7.8 > Severity: normal > > Some background: I'm migrating my home server to new hardware and considering > changing the OS to 64-bit as well. Since apt now supports multiarch, I > thought > I'd do this by installing a 64-bit kernel first and then updating userspace > bit > by bit as necessary and as time permits. Unfortunately, reality turned out to > be much more complicated. >
Hello Cross-grading an entire system is not a documented or supported procedure. You could possibly still proceed as you intended, if you are adventurous. It will take some encouraging of dpkg (lots of ‘--force-FOO’) and you will not receive support for the procedure here. Probably simpler to install a fresh amd64 system. > If a package with Architecture: all depends on a package with a specific > architecture, then that dependency can't be fulfilled by a foreign package. This is by design. At a later stage of the multi-arch transition it may be changed, but not now. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#Dependencies_involving_Architecture:_all_packages> > In > my scenario above, this caused apt to think half the system was broken as soon > as dpkg and apt themselves had been changed to amd64 versions. For example: > > xbase-clients : Depends: x11-apps but it is not installed > Depends: x11-session-utils but it is not installed > Depends: x11-xkb-utils but it is not installed > Depends: x11-xserver-utils but it is not installed > Depends: xauth but it is not installed > Depends: xinit but it is not installed > > However, dpkg -l shows this: > > ii x11-apps 7.7~2 i386 X > applications > ii x11-session-utils 7.6+2 i386 X > session utilities > ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7~1 i386 X11 XKB > utilities > ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7~3 i386 X > server utilities > ii xauth 1:1.0.7-1 i386 X > authentication utility > ii xinit 1.3.2-1 i386 X > server initialisation tool > > Clearly those packages are installed and apt's complaints are baseless. > > This seems to affect dpkg as well. > As above, this is by design. The developers are aware of the highlighted dependency handling and the desire to perhaps move away from it eventually. I am therefore prone to closing this as not-a-bug, the difficultly in cross-grading a system is neither apts or dpkgs fault, they handle the situation correctly. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 7.0 > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
