On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:41:31AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Package: popularity-contest > Version: 1.53 > Severity: important > > The cron job failed today with: > > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: > Package `linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64' is not installed. > Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, > and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. > > I have the amd64 build of linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 installed on an i386 > system, and dpkg requires this to be named as > 'linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64:amd64'.
Hello Ben, Did you try to do dpkg -L linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64:amd64 > I think popularity-contest should query the architecture of each package > and when it is not 'all' or the native architecture then add the > architecture-qualification when naming the package to 'dpkg -L'. This > would retain backward-compatibility with older versions of dpkg, though > maybe not where a foreign package has been installed with > --force-architecture. Yes, but currently this does not work, see bug #659782, which this bug is probably a duplicate. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

