On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:12:42AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Yann Dirson <ydir...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org