Bug#126450: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#126450: apt: Puzzling behavior when package binary not available for architecture)
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:33:05AM -0600, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
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> On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Chris Tillman wrote:
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> > 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
>
No, actually, it doesn't. When one selects the download link from
packages.debian.org, it always constructs an i386 link. I have to
change the link manually to the architecture I need.
That's why apt is so nice; it already knows the architecture I need,
based on the architecture I'm running. I don't understand why this
would take additional index space; the architecture is just
substituted from a global; apt-get already knows it's looking for a
specific architecture. Doesn't affect the index at all, AFAICT.
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