On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 03:07:57PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2020-08-01 22:49 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > Take 2: > > Why does the fact my local mirror only has one of my 2 enabled > > architectures, cause apt upgrade to stop working altogether? > > Because apt expects all enabled architectures to be actually present by > default, which looks like a reasonable assumption to me. > > > Does fixing this mean I requile a local mirror of both my architectures? > > Not necessarily, you can also use different mirrors and use the > [ arch=… ] syntax to fetch only the desired architecture(s) from > each. See sources.list(5).
Oh wow, that's both convenient, and elegant. deb [ arch=amd64 ] file:/public/debian/sid sid main contrib deb http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/debian sid main contrib Problem solved! Now my upgrade says "Need to get 3,605 kB/978 MB of archives", a vast improvement… Thank you very much, Sven :)