Package: apt Version: 0.8.11.1 Severity: important Hi there, Currently, apt's support for multiarch requires users to manually set APT::Architectures in apt.conf to tell apt which architectures are allowed. But dpkg also needs to know what architectures are allowed, and the in-progress multiarch dpkg requires this to be specified with a --foreign-architecture option (typically set in dpkg.cfg). Since 'dpkg -i' and 'apt-get install' should both have the same view of the world, I think apt should be pulling this information from dpkg - which it can do with 'dpkg --print-foreign-architectures'. (This command will obviously fail on pre-multiarch dpkg, in which case no extra architectures should be enabled.) I guess it should still be allowed to override the architecture list through the apt config, but that this should not be the default means of configuring multiarch to ensure consistency between dpkg and apt. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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