Yann Dirson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Hello Just following up on your experiences mentioned in this report and the related ones. It seems as though you were incorrectly using APT::Architectures and [arch=]. To be precise, the recommended configuration for the situation in your original report is: $ dpkg --print-architecture amd64 $ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures armel $ apt-config dump | grep -i ^APT::Architecture APT::Architecture "amd64"; APT::Architectures ""; APT::Architectures:: "amd64"; APT::Architectures:: "armel"; $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb [arch=amd64] ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze main Which I think you eventually implemented. It is important that APT::Architectures contains an entry for every architecture of an installed package. I understand that, while trying to sort this out, you removed armel from APT::Architectures and proceeded with an upgrade which caused some problems with libc6 on this system. That issue is tracked as #670668: apt is unaware of installed packages whose architecture is not in APT::Architectures. Did you ever recover your system from the libc6 issue? (Please do not close #670668 as the issue still applies to apt generally.) Also, are you now using the correct configuration mentioned above (or something similar) and does this work as you expected? If so, I believe we can close this bug (#670322). > (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) Package: *:armel Pin: release n=squeeze Pin-Priority: 991 Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
