On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 11:06:31 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 05:51:08AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 22:30:30 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > > How does crossgrading normally work? > > > > Cross-grading happens whenever a new package instance is installed > > with a different architecture from the current single instance, as > > long as both old and new are not M-A:same, or they switch from > > non-M-A:same to M-A:same or the reverse. > > > > > If Arno had not had libwine:i386 installed, would the upgrade have worked? > > > > Yeah (assuming not-installed == not-present), that would have been a > > cross-grade. Because the old one is M-A:same and the new one is > > M-A:foreign. > > Corect me if I'm wrong but your saying the following work: > > foo:i386 same 1.2-3 -> foo:i386 foreign 1.2-4 > foo:amd64 same 1.2-3 -> foo:i386 foreign 1.2-4 > foo:i386 same 1.2-3 -> foo:amd64 foreign 1.2-4 > foo:amd64 same 1.2-3 -> foo:amd64 foreign 1.2-4
> But not: > > foo:amd64 same 1.2-3 -\ > -> foo:i386 foreign 1.2-4 > foo:i386 same 1.2-3 -/ Yes (where ‘foreign’ could be also ‘allowed’ or implicit ‘no’). regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
