On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:33:05AM -0600, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > This will become a more common occurrence as we continue to add more > > architectures, I'd like to suggest a different message when this happens, > > such as: > > The amount of extra index data required to generate a message like this is > far to great to justify it. I'm pretty sure packages.debian.org has a > little reference to the available arches on the page someplace. > > Jason >
No, actually, it doesn't. When one selects the download link from packages.debian.org, it always constructs an i386 link. I have to change the link manually to the architecture I need. That's why apt is so nice; it already knows the architecture I need, based on the architecture I'm running. I don't understand why this would take additional index space; the architecture is just substituted from a global; apt-get already knows it's looking for a specific architecture. Doesn't affect the index at all, AFAICT. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
