[ATrpms-users] Re: problem with atrpm-kickstart rpm for x86_64

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 04:01:39PM -0500, Ben Root wrote:
> Hello, I first want to say that I find your site extremely useful, and it does
> make it easy to find things that I need.
> 
> I have a 64 bit system, and I use the atrpm kickstart rpm for the x86_64
> architecture, and it installed just fine.

Unfortunatly apt does not support multilib systems:

http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=334
http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=326

(the first entry has some workarounds)

This means that you cannot have apt on a system with overlapping i386
and x86_64 packages. You either use another package manager (smart,
up2date or yum), or you make your system non-multilib by removing all
(overlapping) i386 packages. The latter will leave you w/o openoffice.

> However, a problem came up for me and took a while to figure out.
> The /etc/apt/sources.list file points to the i386 files, making
> apt-get report tons of errors.
> 
> Now, it may be that the rpm reconstituted the saved sources file
> when I initially installed the incorrect version of the kickstart
> rpm (which I removed immediately).  I don't know much about
> packaging rpms, so, maybe this is an odd situation that can't be
> fixed with the rpm packager, but I figured that it would be useful
> to bring this to your attention.

Thanks for reporting. There is nothing we can do other than the
workaround described above. apt developement has stalled in favour of
the `smart´ package manager.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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