Re: Re: Bug#748936: apt doesnt understand architecture wildcards

[Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi,

On 06/04/2014 03:41 AM, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 22:04:48 +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
>> * Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de> [140522 13:30]:
>>> Debian policy 11.1.1 [1] and the associated footnote [2] allow
>>> architecture wildcards of the form os-any and any-cpu. Apt seems to
>>> equal "cpu" with "debian architecture" which is not correct. Here is an
>>> example of correct matching:
>>>
>>> dpkg-architecture -aarmhf -iany-arm && echo "any-arm matches armhf"
...
>  * Other programs could “easily” use dpkg-architecture to check for
>    identity or a match. (This poses problems for programs that do not
I think making apt call dpkg-architecture for matching would be a good
way of ensuring consistency with dpkg. Caching the results in a hash
table would make matching even faster than it is currently.

Cheers,
Balint