On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:05:59PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > When I remove these comments and also add > acroread:i386 > to my package_config file, acroread is installed without any problems. > No need for calling add-architecture inside the nfsroot.
Must be "just me" then :-). Possibly my config space contains (or is missing) something which is causing this behaviour. Or have you changed anything in install_packages recently, which might affect this? > Are you sure? Well, I have spent half a working day trying to find a workaround, and done several test installs with extra printouts included, so I believe I have done sufficient homework. > When I call dpkg --print-foreign-architectures on my > install client during installation (that's inside the nfsroot) it > prints nothing. So, no foreign architecture was added inside the > nfsroot, but still my client installs acroread:i386 fine. Just re-iterating what has been said before: the install, such as "apt-get install acroread" works, yes. But sub installable {} in /usr/sbin/install_packages fails to recognize the :i386 packages unless the architecture has been added into the nfsroot. To wrap this up, if I am the first (and possibly only) person seeing this, and because I already have a workaround, let us leave it as-is, in the mailing list archives, in case someone else will encounter this in the future. I do not think I can afford spending more time debugging it. Regards, Toomas