On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:22:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:and apt does not handle multi-arch (i386 vs x86_64, PPC, ...).In its native environment it does this just fine. Debian boasts 13 or so architechtures and such a limitation would be intolerable
I think you're misunderstanding. It's not a question of whether it can handle different architectures at all (it certainly can) but whether it can properly handle the mix-n-match thing that x86_64 Fedora Core uses. I believe Debian has opted to avoid the problem entirely by sticking to pure 64bit apps on x86_64.
Indeed. Apt runs on x86_64 (and several other archs) and can handle mixing x86_64 and i386 packages just fine, *as long as the package names differ*.
Which in practise means that FC and RHEL on biarch systems dont work with apt, at least Suse handles this situation differently.
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