Public bug reported:
LANG=C ; dselect select
dselect: error: foreign architectures enabled but multi-arch is not supported
Maybe we should add "Please try another package manager for now. For example
aptitude or .." to the error message.
Or should we remove package dselect completely from amd64 arch if it is not
able to handle it?
Bug or feature request to add multi-arch support to dselect and what to
do if you want to continue using it.
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
apt-cache policy dselect
dselect:
Installed: 1.16.7ubuntu6
Candidate: 1.16.7ubuntu6
Version table:
*** 1.16.7ubuntu6 0
500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Same from Debian dselect: no support for multi-arch
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664893
grep -n -A2 -B4 "foreign architectures" dselect/main.cc
365-
366- // XXX: Multi-Arch is not supported, bail out.
367- for (arch = dpkg_arch_get_list(); arch; arch = arch->next)
368- if (arch->type == arch_foreign)
369: ohshit(_("foreign architectures enabled but multi-arch is not
supported"));
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=62467910df606a1daaea096f66018506a3ea451e
authorGuillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:57:18 +0000 (19:57 +0100)
committerGuillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
Wed, 1 Feb 2012 05:31:46 +0000 (06:31 +0100)
"The selection code does not support multi-arch at all, so do not even try to
run it if there's a foreign architecture configured."
OK so if I reverse the patch it is working as before in precise. mulit-
arch selection is not working great but at least it can do other things
like before quantal 12.10.
To rebuild..
apt-get source dselect
Reverse patch in dselect/main.cc
dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
dpkg -i dpkg -i dselect_*.deb
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Johan
** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: multiarch
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