On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:07:55PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.8.14.1
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/bin/apt-get
>
> I added the following to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/multiarch:
>
> APT::Architectures { "amd64"; "i386"; "armel"; };
>
> I have this in my sources.list:
>
> deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental iceweasel-5.0
>
> apt-get update then complains about missing armel metadata on that repo:
>
> W: Failed to fetch http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/experimental/Release Unable to find expected entry 'iceweasel-5.0/binary-armel/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
>
> The repo doesn't contain anything about armel at all. While I do understand
> this can be an important piece of information in some cases, in cases like
> this one, it is unnecessarily annoying.
I think it's absolutely reasonable. The default is to get sources for all
requested architectures. If you don't want APT to fetch armel files for
that source, use
deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental iceweasel-5.0
instead.
--
Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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