Re: Problem with apt update

["Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>]

On 10/20/2019 10:41 AM, Reco wrote:
> 	Hi.
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:25:27AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > I know the the command worked because I can access -i386 applications. However, when I run:
> >
> > > comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo -s apt update
> <apt output showing InRelease, but no Packages.diff>
> > none of the Debian i386 repositories are listed. Why is this the case?
> If the mirror has not changed its contents since your last update, apt
> will only show *checking* Release files, but won't show downloading new
> index files.
>
> For instance, these are shown without an architecture:
>
> Get:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease [39.1 kB]
> Hit:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
> Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease [49.3 kB]
> Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease [46.7 kB]
>
> But these ones are shown with the one:
>
> Ign:6 http://security.debian.org buster/updates/main arm64 Packages
> Ign:7 http://security.debian.org buster/updates/main amd64 Packages
> ..
> Ign:10 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-updates/main amd64 Packages.diff/Index
> Ign:11 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-updates/main arm64 Packages.diff/Index
>
>
> Also, if you need to check your multiarch status, the following does it
> for me (any meaningful library should do it):
>
> apt policy libc6:*
>
> Reco

Thanks for the reply. your suggestion shows that the i386 files are, 
indeed, there. My main concern is the corollary to Murphy's Law - 'if 
one thing is wrong many others are probably at risk also'.

Happily, that doesn't seem to be the case, at least so far!.

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