[Bug 1017333] Re: multiarch doesn't really work

[Micah Gersten]

** Tags added: multiarch

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Title:
  multiarch doesn't really work

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  So, following along with https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec and
  specifically the (Shawn) use-case of upgrading an i386 system to
  amd64, I've upgraded the kernel to amd64 and booted it successfully.
  I've also got the required amd64 libs installed and I've successfully
  upgrade dpkg and apt to the amd64 versions.

  # dpkg --print-architecture
  amd64
  # dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
  i386

  I thought at this point I was supposed to have a happy dual-arch based
  system, but that doesn't seem to be the case.  apt-get check lists a
  whole litany of dependency failures.  But to just take the first one
  for example:

  # apt-get check
  ...
  adduser : Depends: perl-base (>= 5.6.0) but it is not installable
  ...

  dpkg shows the following states for those packages:
  ii  adduser                                     3.113ubuntu2                                add and remove users and groups
  in  perl-base                                   <none>                                      (no description available)
  ii  perl-base:i386                              5.14.2-6ubuntu2                             minimal Perl system

  So the question is, is the perl-base:i386 package not enough to
  satisfy adduser's dependency on perl-base?  If not, then there is no
  hope that multi-arch can be at all useful and I will need to upgrade
  everything to amd64 right?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: apt (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Jun 24 23:29:43 2012
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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