[APT repo] Provide a binary-all/Packages only, no primary arch list
Hey guys,
while checking how to best enable riscv64 support for Webmin's own APT
repository, we recognised that APT falls back to/uses
"binary-all/Packages" packages, but still complains with a warning if no
"binary-riscv64/Packages" is present and declared in the Release file of
the APT repository:
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W: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-riscv64/Packages'
as repository 'https://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge
InRelease' does not seem to provide it (sources.list entry misspelt?)
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Is this expected behaviour, i.e. is every repository expected to provide
dedicated package lists for every architecture, or is there a way to
provide an "all" architectures list only, without causing clients to
throw warnings? In case of Webmin, all packages are perl scripts, have
"Architecture: all" declared and naturally support all architectures. So
it seems unnecessary to provide clones of a single package list for
every architecture explicitly, and having to do so whenever a new one
appears.
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Best regards,
Micha
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