Re: mythtv package with multi-arch support

On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 10:55 +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> On 03 oct. 2017 09:43, Ian Campbell <ijc@???> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 09:59 +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > > On 03 oct. 2017 09:55, Christian Marillat <marillat@???>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > > I also (for the sake of experimentation, since it is not in
> > > > > itself
> > > > > useful) tried to just install the lib*myth* packages and
> > > > > their
> > > > > dependencies, but libmyth-29:amd64 wanted to pull in iputils-
> > > > > ping:amd64
> > > > > (I suspect the i386 version would have been ok).
> > > >
> > > > I think dpkg can't manage that because dpkg is unaable to
> > > > download the
> > > > right package architecture. Only apt-get (and apt clones) is
> > > > able to do
> > > > that (download).
> >
> > All my experiments here were with apt.
> >
> > > Maybe a less aggressive solution is to upgrade package by package
> > > like :
> > >
> > > apt-get install mythtv-frontend:amd64
> >
> > I'll give that a go, hopefully tonight.
>
> As you're using apt, don't spend you tile with that, apt-get should do
> the same.

(...your time... I pressume).

OK.

Actually, it might be interesting to try it directly with dpkg, having
constructed a directory with an appropriate set of packages in...

Ian.