> > 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.
> 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. You should email the debian-www team and ask them about that, it might be that i386 is the only link because that's the only arch it is avaiable for. > based on the architecture I'm running. I don't understand why this > would take additional index space; the architecture is just Because if a package does not exist on a given architecture it is not idexed at all, and the indexes only contain data for a single arch. It is not possible to tell which arch's a particular package is available for with just the standard index data. Jason
