Bug#704230: apt considers packages with Architecture: all as being of the native architecture

2013-06-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 09:51:34AM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > 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

Bug#704230: apt considers packages with Architecture: all as being of the native architecture

2013-03-31 Thread Mikko Rasa
On 31.03.2013 06:45, Guillem Jover wrote: I managed to put together a Python script which changes the architecture of an installed Debian system from i386 to amd64. I didn't even need to use any --force; processing packages in correct order by dependencies is enough, since dpkg does less depende

Bug#704230: apt considers packages with Architecture: all as being of the native architecture

2013-03-30 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2013-03-31 at 05:45:20 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > If dpkg fails on some packages, one issue might be because they are > not yet properly marked with a Multi-Arch field, as noted also in the > announcement mail. A small clarification, while the above is true, marking them with Multi-Arch

Bug#704230: apt considers packages with Architecture: all as being of the native architecture

2013-03-30 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2013-03-30 at 20:11:11 +0200, Mikko Rasa wrote: > On 30.03.2013 03:51, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > > On 30 March 2013 06:33, Mikko Rasa wrote: > > > Some background: I'm migrating my home server to new hardware and > > > considering > > > changing the OS to 64-bit as well. Since apt now

Bug#704230: apt considers packages with Architecture: all as being of the native architecture

2013-03-30 Thread Mikko Rasa
On 30.03.2013 03:51, Daniel Hartwig wrote: On 30 March 2013 06:33, Mikko Rasa 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

Bug#704230: apt considers packages with Architecture: all as being of the native architecture

2013-03-29 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 30 March 2013 06:33, Mikko Rasa 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

Bug#704230: apt considers packages with Architecture: all as being of the native architecture

2013-03-29 Thread Mikko Rasa
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 nec