[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] ia32-apt-get status?

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> writes:

> Hello,
>
> is there any progress with the ia32-apt or should I just remove it and
> no longer bother you with questions about it?

I still care about it. I just haven't had time to work on it.

> It allows installing recent versions of software for both subarchs
> which is quite challenging otherwise but I guess I could just use some
> spare partition on my disk for a chroot.
>
> On 17 September 2010 13:54, Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> wrote:
>> On 15 September 2010 21:40, Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> wrote:
>>> On 15 September 2010 21:16, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b at web.de> wrote:
>
> I still can't install packages from wine ppa.
>
>>
>> The ppa can be found here: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa
>
> + there is guide on adding it to "old Ubuntu" = Debian in some
> "repository details" link
>
> After resolving the issue with packages with [arch=something] field
> not showing in merged package list (which was probably caused by me) I
> have unresolvable dependencies.
>
> I have gcc-multilib installed which depends on lib32libgomp1
>
> Wine pulls in ia32-libgomp1
>
> Adding
>
> libgomp1                lib32gomp1
>
> to the rename.list does not change that. Obviously, ia32-libgomp1
> overwrites lib32gomp1 and fails to install.
>
> Similarily, wine pulls in ia32-gettextpo0 which is provided by gettext
> (i386). Fortunately, nothing depends on this library on the amd64
> side. Otherwise no version of gettext would satisfy both. Perhaps
> non-renamed packages that provide renamed package should be handled
> specially.
>
> At least this should be resolved by renaming gettext.
>
> Thanks
>
> Michal

After changing the rename.list the Packages.gz files need to be mangled
again. Apt-get update will do that if the file is downloaded again,
i.e. when the file changed on the Debian mirror. If you are using stable
you can run "rm /var/lib/ia32-apt/lists/*" followed by "ia32-apt-get
update" to force apt to download the files again.

You also have to reinstall the wine package if apt doesn't do that
automatically so it also gets the updated dependencies.

Hope that helps.

MfG
        Goswin