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Oliver Salzburg
Asked: 2011-06-11 05:54:58 +0800 CST

Why does reprepro complain about the "all" architecture?

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I started setting up a deb repository today for some of our applications. Given that they are interpreted scripts, I went with "all" architecture (from conf/distributions):

Codename: lucid
Architectures: all

But reprepro will print a warning when I try to add a .deb to the repository:

WARNING: Distribution lucid contains an architecture called 'all'.

Now I wonder why it warns about that? What's the problem?

ubuntu debian apt deb

1 Answers

  1. Ah ha! I finally just figured it out. This has been frustrating me for ages now.

    If you specify your .deb (control file) as Architecture: all, then don't put anything into the reprepro distributions file other than the arch's that you want it to get put into.

    Architectures: amd64 i386 ...

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