Hi, (I'm not commenting on the approach used by multistrap in general, I just reply to your questions)
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, Neil Williams wrote: > What will happen with maintainer scripts of Multi-Arch packages when > installed alongside native packages? Why are these being retained if > they cannot be executed? The scripts are executed. That just means that Multi-Arch: same package should avoid use of binary executables as maintainer scripts. But a maintainer script implemented as a shell script can use any program whose presence is guaranteed by the dependencies, just as usual, whatever its arch. > > 3/ Any program that assumes the current layout of control files > > (/var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.<something>) will be broken (at > > least for some packages) since the layout will change to support > > Multi-Arch: same packages that can be co-installed. > > > > You should use "dpkg-query --control-path <package> <something>" to > > retrieve the path of the file. This has been introduced in dpkg > > 1.15.4 and is thus in squeeze already. > > 1. Which packages currently show this behaviour? dpkg doesn't show any > change in the --control-path setting for dpkg itself. The change will only take place once we roll out multiarch... if you use one of my snapshot you already have a different value here (it embeds the architecture string). But that's not the definitive layout, see below. > 2. What are the changes in /var/lib/dpkg/info/* ? Multi-Arch: same packages will use /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>:<arch>.<something> > For Multistrap, every file in /var/lib/dpkg/ has to be created by > multistrap, based on the data obtained from dpkg -e (basically the > DEBIAN/ content). This data needs only to be sufficient that dpkg can > correctly configure the packages once dpkg itself is able to be > executed inside the new filesystem. It's sufficient, you just need to know the value of the Multi-Arch field. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
