On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 07:32:02PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Fakeroot doesn't provide for example
> /usr/lib32/fakeroot/libfakeroot-sysv.so, which makes it impossible to
> create an i386 fakechroot on an amd64 system.
> 
> For example, the following will fail
> 
>   $ export PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
>   $ fakeroot fakechroot debootstrap --variant=fakechroot --arch=i386 squeeze
>    ./chroot http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
> 
> Note that on i386 the fakeroot package does provide the necessary
> 64-bit libraries. Thanks for looking into this.

They were removed in order to close #538037.  The alternative was a Pre-Depends
on libc6-i386, which would have been ridiculous.

If you have an idea of how to fix this before squeeze is released, I'm 
listening.



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