On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > > There are two problems with that: > > - Not all packages have been multiarchified, including some important > packages with many reverse dependencies like perl and python. > Crossgrading those will leave you with many broken packages, at least > temporarily. Cross your fingers that apt will show a way out. > > - Apt does not properly support crossgrades, for a package foo which is > not "Multi-Arch: same" it treats foo:i386 and foo:amd64 as two > different, conflicting packages. This means that it will remove > foo:i386 before installing foo:amd64 which obviously does not work for > Essential packages, so you have to crossgrade those with dpkg alone. > This is quite a hassle since you have to install all necessary > libraries beforehand. > > I have crossgraded some packages in i386 chroots that way, but in the > current state of affairs I would definitely _not_ dare to try a full > crossgrade on my main system with almost 2000 installed packages.
I bet it is doable. I wish I had a 32 bit system to try it on, I love doing crazy things with the package manager, like when I combined significant parts of Ubuntu (X and GTK) into my Debian install, and later transitioned back to pure Debian. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=_v_aSH_Nf5z=8bt0qn1cceman0xl9tr872y2w3efd...@mail.gmail.com
