[Aptitude-devel] Bug#995256: Bug#995256: aptitude: TUI loops "Can't find a source to download ..." error

[Axel Beckert]

Hi David,

David Kalnischkies wrote:
> > I wonder if there is a kind of race condition if aptitude is running
> > and then either on the admin on the commandline or a background job
> > runs "apt update".
> 
> That can indeed mess up some things as the cache (which is then old)
> still points to file locations in the "old" files rather than what an
> update might have placed in there in the meantime.
[…]
> > So this package in question is arch:all.
> > 
> > But according to the screenshot, aptitude wants
> > texlive-fonts-recommended:amd64 for whatever reason — which indeed
> > does not exist.
> 
> This is a misunderstanding. An arch:all deb file is always attributed to
> be of the native architecture, in your case amd64. That is because
> libapt makes a difference between a package(name with architecture) and
> a version (of a package with version number & architecture).
[…]

Thanks for these explanations and clarifications, much appreciated!

		Regards, Axel
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