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Subject: apt: Puzzling behavior when package binary not available for architecture
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I was trying to install mpsql. I saw it had stable and unstable
versions at packages.debian.org. apt-get returned:
Couldn't find package mpsql
This was puzzling to me, I finally navigated manually to pool/m/mpsql
and found that there was no powerpc version, only i386 and alpha.
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:
"Package %s unavailable for %s in %s distribution at %s",
"mpsql", "powerpc", "unstable", "mirrors.kernel.org/debian"
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux Obsession 2.2.19 #1 Sat Apr 14 23:20:24 CDT 2001 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 23:27:04 -0700 (MST)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
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To: Chris Tillman <tillman@azstarnet.com>, 126450-done@bugs.debian.org
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Subject: Re: Bug#126450: apt: Puzzling behavior when package binary not available for architecture
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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
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