Bug#670322: apt: hiding foreign arch from APT::Architectures, using with [arch=] only, only partly works
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:12:42AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Yann Dirson <ydirson@free.fr> writes:
>
> > Package: apt
> > Version: 0.8.15.10
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > (found no changelog entry for 0.9.x looking like this problem)
> >
> > I have many sources.list entries, and only want selected ones to take
> > armel packages into account. The new [arch=] tag seems tailored for
> > this, but then, APT::Architectures defaults to all foreign archs
>
> This works the other way around. arch=... is to limit the architectures.
> The default is ment to be all APT::Architectures.
Just to be sure: even if there is some way to setup sources the way I
wanted to do it, there still appears to be a bug that prevents apt to
even manipulate (even remove) a foreign package when its arch has been
removed from APT::Architectures:
# apt-get remove libc6:armel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libc6:armel
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