$ dpkg-query -s "libfontconfig1"
prints the status of the amd64 package, but
$ dpkg-query -W -f='${binary:Package}\n' "libfontconfig1"
prints the package name with both amd64 and i386 architectures.
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I presume that works (I would be using nativearch="$(dpkg --print-
architecture)" through – and poking directly into info/ is discouraged.
Checking exitcode of commands like 'dpkg-query -s "$1"' might be
better), but note that with a "foo:all" you aren't talking about a
package as packages can't ha
The architecture of e.g. debconf is not some specific architecture, but
"all".
So when you want to use the output of apt-mark as an argument for
dpkg(-query), you need to tune the name by a shell function like this,
right? :
dpkg-pkgname() {
nativearch=$([ "$(uname -i)" = "x86_64" ] && echo amd6
Correction, the last amd64 should be replaced by "$nativearch".
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1576960
Title:
apt-mark prints ambiguous package name
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The names aren't ambiguous – if apt prints no architecture it is ALWAYS
the native architecture. This is this way for compatibility reasons as
apt hadn't previously printed any architecture – because they were all
native – so old tools, scripts, processes, … sticking to the common case
of single-ar
