Bug#616111: Bootstrapping a foreign architecture with multiarch

2011-04-02 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 05:47:47 +0200 Guillem Jover wrote: Adding linaro people and debian-embedded to CC: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 22:31:07 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > dpkg cannot be executed inside the chroot because it has not > > necessarily been unpacked at this stage, it certainly

Bug#616111: Bootstrapping a foreign architecture with multiarch

2011-04-01 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 22:31:07 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > dpkg cannot be executed inside the chroot because it has not > necessarily been unpacked at this stage, it certainly has not been > configured. (dpkg is running from outside the chroot). (An Essential package does not need to be con

Bug#616111: Bootstrapping a foreign architecture with multiarch

2011-04-01 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 22:31:07 +0100 Neil Williams wrote: > Inside: > /home/test# dpkg-query --control-path libc6 postinst > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6:amd64.postinst > > /home/test# dpkg-query --admindir /var/lib/dpkg --control-path libc6 control > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6:amd64.control > > $ ls -l

Bug#616111: Bootstrapping a foreign architecture with multiarch

2011-04-01 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 08:31:51 +0100 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > 3/ Any program that assumes the current layout of control files > > >(/var/lib/dpkg/info/.) will be broken (at > > > least for some packages) since the layout will change to support > > > Multi-Arch: same packages that can be co-i

Bug#616111: Bootstrapping a foreign architecture with multiarch

2011-03-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
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 can

Bug#616111: Bootstrapping a foreign architecture with multiarch

2011-03-02 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:06:11 +0100 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 1/ Anywhere where the user might specify a package name, he should be > able to specifiy "package:arch" to cope with Multi-Arch: same > packages that can be co-installed (e.g. libc6:i386 and libc6:amd64 on > the same system). Those packag