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apt-file package

Can't search cross-architecture

Bug #1296128 reported by Hadmut Danisch on 2014-03-22

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	apt-file (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I'm currently using a regular PC (plain AMD64 architecture) to create ubuntu boot images for ARM processor boards.

To make it easier to find necessary packages I wanted to use apt-file to sarch for ARM packages with

I therefore tried things like

apt-file -a armhf update
apt-file -a armhf search bash

which did not work. As far as I can see the reason is that apt-file uses the regular archive URLs, which are valid only for x86 and amd64. The other architectures use different URLs like

http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/trusty/

regards

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: apt-file 2.5.2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-18.38-generic 3.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Mar 22 20:47:13 2014
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apt-file
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Hadmut Danisch (hadmut) wrote on 2014-03-22:

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Niels Thykier (niels-thykier) wrote on 2016-11-12:

apt-file 3 should support this provided you configure apt to fetch the Contents files for armhf. Admittedly, this is waiting for #1641283

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Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri) wrote on 2017-04-27:

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This bug was fixed in the package apt-file - 3.1.4
Sponsored for Niels Thykier (niels-thykier)

---------------
apt-file (3.1.4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix typo in 60disable-contents-fetching.conf. Thanks to
    Felix Geyer for spotting it. (Closes: #843453)
  * apt-file: Fix two spelling mistakes in the --help output.
    Thanks to "axhn" on IRC and Guillem Jover for spotting
    them.

-- Niels Thykier <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:39:04 +0000

apt-file (3.1.3) unstable; urgency=medium

* apt-file: Gracefully handle if origins (or suites) have spaces
in them. (Closes: #843401, #843403)

-- Niels Thykier <email address hidden> Sun, 06 Nov 2016 15:03:52 +0000

apt-file (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Niels Thykier ]
  * apt-file: Strip Contents header without discarding results (Closes: #676642)
  * apt-file: Restructure --help output.
  * apt-file: Support --filter-suites and --filter-origins options. These
    make it possible to only search in (e.g.) Debian/unstable even if
    other origins or/and suites are downloaded.
  * apt-file.1: Clarify that --config-file and --option can be used to
    overwrite other command line parameters.

  [ Paul Wise ]
  * Make the package filter regex match the sectionless Contents-source format
  * Strip the Contents header from the sid cache in the tests

[ Time Potter ]
* Fix typo in apt-file manpage. (Closes: #843122)

-- Niels Thykier <email address hidden> Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:54:12 +0000

apt-file (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * apt-file: Fix off-by-one causing "uninitialized value"
    warning. Thanks to Paul Wise for reporting the issue.
    (Closes: #838296)
  * apt-file: Use "apt-get" instead of "apt" for the update
    command if STDOUT is not a TTY. This is to avoid a
    warning from apt about it being unsuitable for scripts.

-- Niels Thykier <email address hidden> Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:53:01 +0000

apt-file (3.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Move apt-file under the APT packaging team.
  * apt-file: Fix bug in handling patterns starting with "-".
    Thanks to Paul Wise for reporting the issue.
    (Closes: #821016)
  * apt-file: Fix bug where package listing did not work if the
    Contents files did not include sections. Thanks to
    "Unit 193" for the report. (Closes: #820560)
  * apt-file-2-update.sh: Correct path to the "partial" directory.
    Thanks to Ritesh Raj Sarraf for the report. (Closes: #832131)
  * apt-file, 50apt-file.conf: Support fetching of Contents files
    in legacy locations (as used by Ubuntu) by default. This
    requires apt 1.3.
  * apt-file: Support setting a default value for -I/--index-names
    in the apt config file. Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the
    suggestion (part of #825293)
  * apt-file: Accept "ALL" as a special index name for -I. When
    given, apt-file will search all of its indices. Thanks to
    Cyril Brulebois for the suggestion (part of #825293).
  * debian/NEWS: Clarify that the indices for source packages and
    udebs are disabled in the apt-file 2 -> 3 transition. These
    must be manually reabled. Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the
    report. (Closes: #825293)
  * apt-file: Exit with...

This bug was fixed in the package apt-file - 3.1.4
Sponsored for Niels Thykier (niels-thykier)

---------------
apt-file (3.1.4) unstable; urgency=medium

* Fix typo in 60disable-contents-fetching.conf.  Thanks to
    Felix Geyer for spotting it.  (Closes: #843453)
  * apt-file: Fix two spelling mistakes in the --help output.
    Thanks to "axhn" on IRC and Guillem Jover for spotting
    them.

-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:39:04 +0000

apt-file (3.1.3) unstable; urgency=medium

* apt-file: Gracefully handle if origins (or suites) have spaces
    in them.  (Closes: #843401, #843403)

-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Sun, 06 Nov 2016 15:03:52 +0000

apt-file (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium

[ Niels Thykier ]
  * apt-file: Strip Contents header without discarding results (Closes: #676642)
  * apt-file: Restructure --help output.
  * apt-file: Support --filter-suites and --filter-origins options.  These
    make it possible to only search in (e.g.) Debian/unstable even if
    other origins or/and suites are downloaded.
  * apt-file.1: Clarify that --config-file and --option can be used to
    overwrite other command line parameters.

[ Paul Wise ]
  * Make the package filter regex match the sectionless Contents-source format
  * Strip the Contents header from the sid cache in the tests

[ Time Potter ]
  * Fix typo in apt-file manpage.  (Closes: #843122)

-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:54:12 +0000

apt-file (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* apt-file: Fix off-by-one causing "uninitialized value"
    warning.  Thanks to Paul Wise for reporting the issue.
    (Closes: #838296)
  * apt-file: Use "apt-get" instead of "apt" for the update
    command if STDOUT is not a TTY.  This is to avoid a
    warning from apt about it being unsuitable for scripts.

-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:53:01 +0000

apt-file (3.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Move apt-file under the APT packaging team.
  * apt-file: Fix bug in handling patterns starting with "-".
    Thanks to Paul Wise for reporting the issue.
    (Closes: #821016)
  * apt-file: Fix bug where package listing did not work if the
    Contents files did not include sections.  Thanks to
    "Unit 193" for the report.  (Closes: #820560)
  * apt-file-2-update.sh: Correct path to the "partial" directory.
    Thanks to Ritesh Raj Sarraf for the report.  (Closes: #832131)
  * apt-file, 50apt-file.conf: Support fetching of Contents files
    in legacy locations (as used by Ubuntu) by default.  This
    requires apt 1.3.
  * apt-file: Support setting a default value for -I/--index-names
    in the apt config file.  Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the
    suggestion (part of #825293)
  * apt-file: Accept "ALL" as a special index name for -I.  When
    given, apt-file will search all of its indices.  Thanks to
    Cyril Brulebois for the suggestion (part of #825293).
  * debian/NEWS: Clarify that the indices for source packages and
    udebs are disabled in the apt-file 2 -> 3 transition.  These
    must be manually reabled.  Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the
    report.  (Closes: #825293)
  * apt-file: Exit with an error if a subprocess exits non-zero
    (except for grep) or is killed by a signal.  Thanks to
    Paul Wise for the suggestion.  (Closes: #825883)
  * Set debhelper compat to "beta-tester" and bump the minimum
    requirements for debhelper to 10.
  * Bump Standards-Versions to 3.9.8 - no changes required.

-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:59:50 +0000

apt-file (3.0) unstable; urgency=low

* Upload to unstable.
  * d/bash-completion: Update bash-completion to include the
    new command line options.
  * apt-file-2-update.sh: Fix a bug in --uninstall, where it would
    not remove /etc/apt/apt-file.conf
  * 50apt-file.conf: Disable Contents-dsc by default.  They are
    vastly more resource heavy than the rest.
  * README: Document how to change which Contents files are
    downloaded.
  * d/changelog: Add some missing "LP:"-closes in the 3.0~exp entry.
  * Merge and improve the NEWS entries for the experimental apt-file
    3.0 uploads.
  * Drop update-notifier scripts since update-notifier has been
    removed from Debian.
  * d/control: Bump Standards-Versions to 3.9.7 - no changes
    required.

-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:51:27 +0000

apt-file (3.0~exp4) experimental; urgency=medium

* apt-file: Read /etc/apt/apt-file.conf by default if it
    exists.
  * Install example configuration for how to emulate apt-file/2
    behaviour in some cases.
  * apt-file.pod: Document a how-to for two common apt-file/2
    configurations.
  * debian/NEWS: Document the existence of the new example
    configurations.
  * Make the test suite independent of the system's APT
    configuration.
  * d/control: apt-file is now maintained in a git repository.
  * d/compat: Live life at the edge - bump to compat 10.
  * d/control: Remove Enrico Zini from the list of Uploaders.
    Thanks for your work up till now!
  * Makefile: Use $(MAKE) when invoking a make.

-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:25:55 +0000

apt-file (3.0~exp3) experimental; urgency=medium

* apt-file: Accept -c/-o with the same meaning as APT's
    options of same name.  They will also be passed to all
    APT commands called by apt-file.
    (Closes: #516817, #772804)
  * Add versioned Breaks on command-not-found and apt-venv.
  * apt-file(.pod): Expand and document the exit codes used by
    apt-file.
  * apt-file: Fix bug where -x and --substring-match searches
    incorrectly discarded results, where the filename had
    spaces *after* the given pattern matched.
    (Closes: #810566)
  * apt-file.pod: Document that not all APT repositories have
    Contents files.  (Closes: #712555)
  * apt-file.pod: Clarify that search defaults to
    --substring-search and list defaults to --fixed-string.
    (Closes: #766729)

-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Sun, 10 Jan 2016 14:20:10 +0000

apt-file (3.0~exp2) experimental; urgency=medium

* Remove suggests on openssh-client, which was replaced by
    using APT's acquire system.  Thanks to Jakub Wilk for
    the report.  (Closes: #809264)
  * Fix invalid warning about subprocess exiting uncleanly on
    no matches.  The grep(1) process is expected to exit non-zero
    in such cases and apt-file now gracefully handles that.
    Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the report.  (Closes: #809261)
  * Remove suggests on sudo, which is not used directly in
    apt-file.  Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the report.
    (Closes: #809276)
  * Apply patch from Jakub Wilk to fix some formatting errors
    in the apt-file manpage.  (Closes: #809277)

-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Mon, 28 Dec 2015 22:31:05 +0000

apt-file (3.0~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium

* Enable PDiffs by default for Contents files even if
    Acquire::PDiffs is set to false.
  * Remove remark about the "user cache" in the postinst
    script.  Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the report.
    (Closes: #798925)
  * Remember to remove the /etc/apt/apt-file.conf conffile.
    Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the report.  (Closes: #798926)
  * Add "-I" as short-hand for "--index-names".
  * Use "index name" rather than "index type" consistently
    in the man page.
  * Search also Contents-all by default when present to
    prepare for the advent of Contents-all files.
  * Migrate to use the new "cat-file" feature in apt-helper.
    Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for implementing it.
  * Rewrite file reading to use an xargs pipeline.
  * Add an DEP-8/autopkgtest test suite based on the build
    time tests.

-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Sun, 27 Dec 2015 12:22:03 +0000

apt-file (3.0~exp) experimental; urgency=medium

* BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
    - diffindex-download and diffindex-rred has been removed!
      (Closes: #788780)
    - apt-file now exit with non-zero exit code when the
      query results in no matches.  (Closes: #505222)
    - apt-file no longer supports "personal" caches on its
      own.
    - apt-file show (a.k.a. list) now looks up only an exact
      package name by default.  To retain the previous
      behaviour, please use the new --substring-match option.
    - Special uses of "-a" to search in Source packages or
      udebs have been replaced by "--index-names".
    - apt-file now uses "gnu-getopt" option style parsing.
      Notably this means that "+" cannot be used for options
      any longer.
  * Rewrite apt-file to use apt's new acquire system.  By using
    apt, apt-file:
    - makes apt refresh the Contents files.
      (Closes: #476401, #594879)
    - now understands "non-release" lines.  (Closes: #297707)
    - no longer sends "double" requests.  (Closes: #663417)
    - now validates downloads correctly.  (Closes: #515942)
    - can resume downloads (like apt).  (Closes: #594879)
    - now respects Acquire::http::Dl-Limit.  (Closes: #525631)
    - supports deb822 sources.list file.  (Closes: #740978)
    - supports tor+http protocol (Closes: #764349)
    - supports "mirror" protocol (Closes: LP: #888316,
      LP: #1156717, LP: #1395988)
    - respects APT proxy settings (Closes: LP: #817517,
      LP: #767061)
    - now silently accepts that not all mirrors have Contents
      files (Closes: LP#567895, LP#619659).
    (Closes: #752292)
  * Expand the README a bit to give a quick introduction to
    apt-file and indices.
  * Rewrite the manpage from docbook to POD format.
  * Update dependency lists due to the above rewrites.
  * Remove the old apt-file cache on upgrade.  This means that
    users will have to run "apt update" after upgrading.
  * Update the "is-cache-empty" and "do-apt-file-update"
    scripts.
  * Rewrite d/rules to use debhelper "tiny" and bump the
    compat level 9.
  * Add --substring-match option to apt-file.
  * Update bash completions to match the changes.
  * Install bash-completions in their new location and drop
    old bash-completion conffile.

-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Fri, 11 Sep 2015 19:49:57 +0200

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