Hi,
Peter Samuelson wrote:
In order to install chromium:i386 on my amd64 system, its dependency,
chromium-inspector, would need to be Multi-Arch: foreign. This is
because it is Architecture: all, which in a multi-arch context is
calculated as Architecture: {primary installed arch}.
Are you
[Jonathan Nieder]
Are you sure? Could you send output from trying to install it?
I used interactive aptitude and it can't install chromium:i386 because
it can't find a candidate for the chromium-inspector dependency.
(I had always thought that in the multi-arch world Arch: all meant
with
Peter Samuelson wrote:
[Jonathan Nieder]
(I had always thought that in the multi-arch world Arch: all meant
with the same architecture as its dependencies.)
That's what they want you to think! No, for dependency resolution
purposes, arch:all is equivalent to arch:{dpkg's primary arch}.
Daniel Hartwig wrote:
On 6 December 2012 15:26, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote:
so that dpkg, apt, and aptitude can agree on what to do here?
Do they currently disagree?
No, I was just confused. Contrary to my expectation, dpkg follows the
spec.
In my mental model, there is no
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