Systems Architecture when importing apt repos does not match $(ARCH) in sources.list

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

When the "orchestra-import-isos" command is executed, the apt repos are setup as /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/<version>-<architecture>

This would be fine, except that for 64-bit repos it creates x86_64 as the architecture suffix and $(ARCH) in /etc/apt/sources.list resolves to amd64

This means that you cannot use the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list (or any other package list file) to automate the deployment of packages:

deb http://cobbler/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-$(ARCH)/ oneiric main restricted multiverse universe

This resolves to "oneiric-amd64" yet on disk the repo is oneiric-x86_64

This is a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 server with orchestra-provisioning-server installed on it.

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace (theprofessor)]

More information and an example:

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sources.list:

deb http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-$(ARCH)/ oneiric main restricted multiverse universe
deb http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-$(ARCH)-security/ oneiric-security main restricted multiverse universe

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apt-get update:

W: Failed to fetch http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64/dists/oneiric/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64/dists/oneiric/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64/dists/oneiric/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64/dists/oneiric/universe/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

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File listing in /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror:

drwxr-xr-x 6 root www-data 4096 2012-01-26 09:10 maverick-i386/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root www-data 4096 2012-01-26 09:10 maverick-i386-security/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root www-data 4096 2012-01-26 09:01 natty-i386/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root www-data 4096 2012-01-26 09:10 natty-i386-security/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root www-data 4096 2012-01-26 09:01 natty-x86_64/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root www-data 4096 2012-01-26 09:01 natty-x86_64-security/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root www-data 4096 2012-01-26 09:01 oneiric-i386/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root www-data 4096 2012-01-26 09:01 oneiric-i386-security/
drwxrwxr-x 6 1001 1001 4096 2012-01-26 09:08 oneiric-x86_64/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root www-data 4096 2012-01-26 09:01 oneiric-x86_64-security/

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Note that if I link the to the repo as follows, $(ARCH) works:

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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2012-01-25 15:00 oneiric-amd64-security -> oneiric-x86_64-security/

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[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace (theprofessor)]

I have also had to add additional symlinks:

root@server /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64/dists/oneiric# tree
.
├── main
│   ├── binary-amd64
│   │   ├── Packages.bz2
│   │   ├── Packages.gz
│   │   └── Release
│   ├── binary-i386 -> /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/oneiric-i386/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386
│   └── debian-installer
│   └── binary-amd64
│   ├── Packages.bz2
│   └── Packages.gz
├── multiverse
│   ├── binary-amd64
│   │   ├── Packages.bz2
│   │   ├── Packages.gz
│   │   └── Release
│   └── binary-i386 -> /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/oneiric-i386/dists/oneiric/multiverse/binary-i386
├── Release
├── Release.gpg
├── restricted
│   ├── binary-amd64
│   │   ├── Packages.bz2
│   │   ├── Packages.gz
│   │   └── Release
│   └── binary-i386 -> /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/oneiric-i386/dists/oneiric/restricted/binary-i386
└── universe
    ├── binary-amd64
    │   ├── Packages.bz2
    │   ├── Packages.gz
    │   └── Release
    └── binary-i386 -> /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/oneiric-i386/dists/oneiric/universe/binary-i386

14 directories, 16 files

This allows apt-get update to work , however as soon as apt-get upgrade tries to pull in packages from the pools, it failes:

root@desktop:/etc/apt# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  curl icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm libcurl3 libcurl3:i386 libcurl3-gnutls linux-headers-3.0.0-15 linux-headers-3.0.0-15-generic
  linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic linux-libc-dev openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib thunderbird
  thunderbird-globalmenu thunderbird-gnome-support thunderbird-locale-en thunderbird-locale-en-gb thunderbird-locale-en-us
20 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 115 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,409 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Err http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64-security/ oneiric-security/main libcurl3 i386 7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2
  404 Not Found
Get:1 http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64-security/ oneiric-security/main libcurl3 amd64 7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2 [230 kB]
Get:2 http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64-security/ oneiric-security/main libcurl3-gnutls amd64 7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2 [221 kB]
Get:3 http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64-security/ oneiric-security/main linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic amd64 3.0.0-15.26 [37.0 MB]
Get:4 http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64-security/ oneiric-security/main curl amd64 7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2 [134 kB]
Get:5 http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64-security/ oneiric-security/main linux-headers-3.0.0-15 all 3.0.0-15.26 [11.2 MB]
Get:6 http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64-security/ oneiric-security/main linux-headers-3.0.0-15-generic amd64 3.0.0-15.26 [858 kB]
Get:7 http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64-security/ oneiric-security/main linux-libc-dev amd64 3.0.0-15.26 [824 kB]
Get:8 http://192.168.100.41/cblr/repo_mirror/oneiric-amd64-security/ oneiric-security/main icedtea-6-jr...

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

I don't believe this is still an issue in cobbler, please reopen if it is.