Package: apt Version: 0.8.15.10 Severity: normal (found no changelog entry for 0.9.x looking like this problem)
I have many sources.list entries, and only want selected ones to take armel packages into account. The new [arch=] tag seems tailored for this, but then, APT::Architectures defaults to all foreign archs (Sidenote: this situation is probably OK when foreign archs are directly executable (eg. i386 on amd64), but for cross-compiling purposes it it less OK) ... and apt ignores my tag and just downloads any armel Packages file it can find - at least, I am able to install foreign packages, it just does not installs by default the versions I want, and complains for sources which do not provide an armel version. (Sidenote: apt/preferences does not seem to allow scoring based on arch, so I cannot pin armel packages to squeeze on this box where the native packages are usually pinned to testing - maybe worth its own bugreport) Now if I tell apt to only consider amd64 by default, with: APT::Architectures { "amd64"; }; ... then apt-get update *does* fetch only the correct files, with a single armel Packages file, but then, neither of apt-get/apt-cache/aptitude want to talk about armel packages again, even for installed ones: # dpkg -l libc6:armel ... ii libc6:armel 2.13-27 # apt-cache policy libc6:armel N: Unable to locate package libc6:armel And if I comment out this APT::Architectures line and run apt-get update again: # apt-cache policy libc6:armel libc6:armel: Installed: 2.13-27 Candidate: 2.13-27 ... Maybe I'm just trying to use the wrong feature to do what I need - I had to guess since the sources.list manpage does not really tell that the [arch=] syntax is not expected to be useful out of the box, nor in which situations it is expected to be useful. -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT::Architecture "amd64"; ... APT::Architectures ""; APT::Architectures:: "amd64"; -- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) -- -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free ... deb [ arch=amd64,armel ] ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze main -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 ii gnupg 1.4.12-4 ii libc6 2.13-27 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.0-3 ii libstdc++6 4.7.0-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.6.dfsg-2 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: ii apt-doc <none> ii aptitude 0.6.6-1 ii bzip2 1.0.6-1 ii dpkg-dev 1.16.2 ii python-apt 0.8.3+nmu1 ii xz-lzma [lzma] 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org