[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#537455: ia32-apt-get: ia32-aptitude does not update periodically

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Toby Speight <T.M.Speight.90 at cantab.net> writes:

> 0> In article <87y6qljw2b.fsf at frosties.localdomain>,
> 0> Goswin von Brederlow <URL:mailto:goswin-v-b at web.de> ("Goswin") wrote:
>
> Goswin> Another drawback of not diverting apt-get and aptitude.  I'm
> Goswin> afraid this would have to be fixed in the apt-cron package so it
> Goswin> calls the new wrappers.
>
> Just to clarify - I'm using aptitude's own cron job, and I've now
> uninstalled the cron-apt package.  I've nothing against going back to
> the cron-apt method personally, but if Apt::Periodic can be made to work
> as well, then even better.

Oh, didn't know apt (it actualy is apt) had its own thing there
now. But the same thing applies. /etc/cron.daily/apt needs to call
ia32-apt-get. ia32-apt-get should probably have a
/etc/cron.daily/ia32-apt that does that. You can create one yourself
for a quick fix.

> I wonder if the correct long-term approach is for apt-get and aptitude to
> be multi-arch aware, so that they accept extensions for the particular
> architectures that are supported?  But I don't know where such discussions
> are taking place.

They are. But true multiarch is still a long way away. ia32-apt-get
is, like ia32-libs was, just a hack to bridge the time till multiarch.

MfG
        Goswin