On 2012-10-2, at 1:25 PM, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:19 PM, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
Take a look at bug 8840. I think this script could be generalized to include Debian. However, since the problem was Ubuntu, and not Debian, we didn't.
It's OK but I agree it does seem to be rather Ubuntu-specific at the mo.
By the way (looking at the other replies), I think it is apt-get that is breaking, as "sudo dselect install" and "sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade" are the same thing. So if this multiarch bug isn't fixed in the OS, it may bite us later no matter what we do.
You may take a look at this, they talk about wheeze and thus will bite us soon.
I'm curious, the bugs report says… "Well, your bug report shows there are still people using dselect..:-) It's of course not a big surprise that dselect doesn't support multi arch." so… whats the better alternative to dselect, that we should be using (that i know nothing about?) dpkg or aptitude, i guess?? anyone know?