On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:12:34PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > 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.
No, this is a long-known bug in packages.debian.org (e.g. #21620). > > 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. I was under the impression that Chris was asking for more information to be displayed about what APT is *currently* trying to download in order to help the user track down problems, not about the architectures for which a package is available. Being more verbose about the current action doesn't require extra indexing. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
