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authorDavid Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>2012-09-09 16:03:52 +0200
committerDavid Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>2012-09-09 16:03:52 +0200
commitc919ad6e4d0de48acb60f2a1371ade9bfb0451f8 (patch)
treef814cdfc029498db53928c06e619c91683b3f115 /apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
parent601c2c8ec3d33a1e787af75f20b51d1131cb6d74 (diff)
handle packages without a mandatory architecture (debian-policy §5.3)
by introducing a pseudo-architecture 'none' so that the small group of users with these packages can get right of them without introducing too much hassle for other users (Closes: #686346)
Diffstat (limited to 'apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc')
-rw-r--r--apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc b/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
index 9acb7da72..353172d8a 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ pkgCache::PkgIterator pkgCache::FindPkg(const string &Name) {
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
/* Returns 0 on error, pointer to the package otherwise */
pkgCache::PkgIterator pkgCache::FindPkg(const string &Name, string const &Arch) {
- if (MultiArchCache() == false) {
+ if (MultiArchCache() == false && Arch != "none") {
if (Arch == "native" || Arch == "all" || Arch == "any" ||
Arch == NativeArch())
return SingleArchFindPkg(Name);
@@ -376,6 +376,10 @@ pkgCache::PkgIterator pkgCache::GrpIterator::FindPreferredPkg(bool const &Prefer
if (Pkg.end() == false && (PreferNonVirtual == false || Pkg->VersionList != 0))
return Pkg;
}
+ // packages without an architecture
+ Pkg = FindPkg("none");
+ if (Pkg.end() == false && (PreferNonVirtual == false || Pkg->VersionList != 0))
+ return Pkg;
if (PreferNonVirtual == true)
return FindPreferredPkg(false);