Bug#876981: marked as done (apt-get download ignores invalid Architecture)
Your message dated Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:08:09 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#876981: apt-get download ignores invalid Architecture
has caused the Debian Bug report #876981,
regarding apt-get download ignores invalid Architecture
to be marked as done.
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Package: apt
Version: 1.4.7
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
specifying an invalid architecture for apt-get download does not give an error
message. Instead return value is 0 and the i386 version of the package is
downloaded:
$ apt-get download -o APT::Architecture=omgwtfbbq xz-utils
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 xz-utils i386
5.2.2-1.2+b1 [271 kB]
Similarly, apt-get install doesn't just give a short explanation about the
wrong architecture but spits out pages of missing dependencies.
Cheers
Sebastian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii adduser 3.115
ii debian-archive-keyring 2017.5
ii gpgv 2.1.18-6
ii init-system-helpers 1.48
ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4.7
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18
Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii gnupg 2.1.18-6
ii gnupg2 2.1.18-6
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none>
ii aptitude 0.8.7-1
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24
pn powermgmt-base <none>
ii python-apt 1.4.0~beta3
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--- Begin Message ---
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 01:30:43PM +0200, Sebastian Hahn wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.4.7
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> specifying an invalid architecture for apt-get download does not give an error
> message. Instead return value is 0 and the i386 version of the package is
> downloaded:
>
> $ apt-get download -o APT::Architecture=omgwtfbbq xz-utils
> Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 xz-utils i386
> 5.2.2-1.2+b1 [271 kB]
It's perfectly valid for apt to pick another architecture from
APT::Architectures if the main architecture is not available.
You did not ask it for xz-utils:omgwtfbbq after all.
>
> Similarly, apt-get install doesn't just give a short explanation about the
> wrong architecture but spits out pages of missing dependencies.
There are no invalid architectures, and if you specify APT::Architecture
you (are supposed to) know what you are doing. There really is no valid use
case for APT::Architecture outside of some weird chroot with host apt
scenarios.
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