[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#539277: Bug#539277: ia32-apt-get fails to generate package for 32bit nvidia-glx-dev

[Ben Klein]

2009/7/31 Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b at web.de>:
> Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Package: ia32-libs-tools
>> Version: 22
>>
>> I think this is actually a problem with ia32-libs-tools and not
>> ia32-apt-get, but when using ia32-apt-get in Sid, I haven't been able
>> to install an ia32 version of nvidia-glx-dev. I tried
>> "ia32-nvidia-glx-dev", "nvidia-glx-ia32-dev" and
>> "nvidia-glx-dev-ia32".
>>
>> Adding an entry for nvidia-glx-dev in /etc/ia32-libs-tools/rename.list
>> and running "ia32-apt-get update" works around this.
>
> The 32bit nvidia-glx needs some changes to its preinst file to support
> ia32-apt-get before you can think about installing a 32bit
> nvidia-glx-dev. Once that is done a entry in rename.list is probably
> the only thing missing for the -dev package. But it is a conffile, so
> configure away. :)

It seems to work fine for me with the line in rename.list on version
185.18.14-2. What issues do you expect from preinst? Maybe I can check
for them :)