[arch-general] Migrating from 64 to 32 bit

[Doug Newgard]

On 2014-07-20 18:17, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> starting to do migration from 64 to 32 bit as announced within the
> other thread. :o))
> 
> I choose the Live-CD method following this guide:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_Between_Architectures_Without_Reinstalling#Method_1:_using_the_Arch_LiveCD
> 
> changed the script mensioned there this way:
> 
> =====================
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> MOUNTED_INSTALL='/mnt'
> TEMP_FILE='/tmp/packages.list'
> ARCH='i686' # added this and used --arch $ARCH
> 
> pacman --root $MOUNTED_INSTALL -Sy
> pacman --root $MOUNTED_INSTALL --cachedir
> $MOUNTED_INSTALL/var/cache/pacman/pkg --arch $ARCH --noconfirm -S base
> base-devel # -Sg only *listing* the groups
> 
> #not reached here yet
> pacman --root $MOUNTED_INSTALL -Qq > $TEMP_FILE
> for PKG in $(cat $TEMP_FILE) ; do
>    pacman --root $MOUNTED_INSTALL --cachedir
> $MOUNTED_INSTALL/var/cache/pacman/pkg --noconfirm -S $PKG
> done
> 
> exit 0
> =================
> 
> As I'm a courious guy I run the lines one by one on the shell watching 
> the
> results :o))
> 
> running the second line, 32-bit live arch's pacman refuses to install 
> 32-bit
> packages and instead complains (example):
> 
> :: package pkg-config-0.28-2-x86_64 does not have a valid architecture
> 
> this is basically true, but not very helpful because I requested it to 
> install
> 32-bit packages which in this case should be pkg-config-0.28-2-i686, if 
> I got
> it right.
> 
> Changing neither /etc/pacman.conf's Architecture = i686 nor the
> /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist entries accordingly are of any help.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea, what's missing?

Channge pacman -Sy to pacman -Syy to force it to grab new databases.