Re: Bug#72862: apt can't handle multiple architectures
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> (1) I've tried to make the ppc and i386 box share the package lists too
> (/var/state/apt/lists). The idea was to make them share the package
> information for source packages and binary-all. Did'nt work. Running
> "apt-get update" on the powerpc box deleted the package lists for the
> i386 architecture. Same problem the other way around...
There is an option to disable this, but basically sharing package lists
isn't going to work since they are different to start with. Just use
seperate directories for them
> (2) I can't clean up the cache any more. "apt-get -s autoclean" on the
> i386 box says it would delete all the powerpc packages. Right now
> there is enouth free space on the file system, but in the long run
> I'd like to be able to delete obsolete packages...
This is a mistake, will fix it.
Jason
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