On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:56:05PM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > Hi,
talking to myself again :) > anybody out there using the same configuration tree to populate more > than one architecture? I'd like to know how you fixed (or worked around) > the feature of dpkg-scanpackages to skip an older xyz_*_i386.deb package > when a xyz_*_alpha.deb package with a higher version number is > available. Thanks to Holger who suggested a workaround (and even a proper fix, which unfortunately would involve the setup of a regular Debian repository). For the time being, and while looking for a better solution, I decided to move the Alpha-specific stuff into another directory (files/packages.ALPHA) and add that one to /etc/apt/sources.list in the ALPHA-dependent nfsroot (the only proper place to make such a modification, I think). This way one could put all _all.debs into a generic packages directory, all _i86.debs into a i386 one, and so on. Not very nice but quite efficient. Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * * * Merlin cluster admin (http://pandora.aei.mpg.de) Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI Gravitationsphysik, http://www.aei.mpg.de) Science Park Golm, Am M�hlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298}
