retitle 536545 *-ia32 packages uninstallable thanks Randall Donald wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 22:36 -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 21:31, Randall Donald<ra...@khensu.org> wrote: >>> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 21:09 -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote: >>>> nvidia-glx-ia32 now depends on 'ia32-libx11-6' and 'ia32-libxext6'. >>>> Architecture. Those packages aren't in the archive. Am I supposed to >>>> be using ia32-apt-get to install them? >>>> >>> Yes I believe so. >> Well, that's just... not right. They're not in the official archive, > neither is the kernel module. > >> and I believe the new/old ia32-libs will make it unnecessary (Goswin's >> orphaned it): >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/07/msg00103.html > > > Well the transition stuff was done by somebody else so I don't admit to > fully understanding what is going on. The new/old ia32-libs isn't in the > archive yet either so we can only work with the current system. > > Maybe Andreas has some input on this as he created the patch.
At the time I created and tested the patch ia32-apt-get (IIRC rel. 18 or 20) worked in "the intrusive way" diverting apt-get and friends and package build worked fine. Now (rel 22) this has changed and there are currently neither a functional monolithic ia32-libs nor individual ia32-lib* packages available for sid (in default configurations, they can be installed manually with ia32-apt-get and friends). So until the ia32-libs issue is solved one way or another there is not much the nvidia-*-ia32 packages could do about this. I'll post a patch for nvidia-graphics-drivers once this is possible. Probably going back to an unversioned ia32-libs build dependency will be enough. I personally liked the idea of having the individual ia32-lib* packages, less bloated dependencies and a much easier way to update individual libs. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
