[Bug 831768] Re: aptitude cannot handle conflicts with multiarch enabled

[Michal Suchanek]

On 27 April 2012 11:12, Daniel Hartwig <831768 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> ** Description changed:
>
>  TEST CASE:
>  1. Enable multiarch (should be automatic on new oneiric systems)
>  2. Install an i386 package on amd64 (like flashplugin-installer:i386)
>  3. Mark something with a lot of dependencies for installation
>  4. On the confirmation screen, try to remove on of the dependencies (aptitude will now fail to perform upgrades when there's a package conflict w/out removing the i386 libs)

This is not specific to multiarch.

If you enable a repository with random conflicts with your current
base system and install a package from such repository you get into
this situation. Foreign arch on multiarch system is one of such
possible repositories. Third party repositories often cause similar
issues.

>
>  This renders aptitude painful on a multiarch enabled system (default in
>  oneiric).

on any system with complex dependencies.

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Title:
  aptitude cannot handle conflicts with multiarch enabled

Status in aptitude:
  Fix Released
Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “aptitude” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged
Status in “aptitude” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  Incomplete
Status in “aptitude” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  TEST CASE:
  1. Enable multiarch (should be automatic on new oneiric systems)
  2. Install an i386 package on amd64 (like flashplugin-installer:i386)
  3. Mark something with a lot of dependencies for installation
  4. On the confirmation screen, try to remove on of the dependencies (aptitude will now fail to perform upgrades when there's a package conflict w/out removing the i386 libs)

  This renders aptitude painful on a multiarch enabled system (default
  in oneiric).

  WORKAROUND:
  1. If you can survive without 32 bit libraries, just comment out the single line in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch; or
  2. Use another package manager (e.g. apt-get, synaptic, or Software Center)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: aptitude 0.6.4-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.12-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Aug 23 00:28:38 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=C
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-03-06 (169 days ago)

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