Binary package hint: python-apt
After enabling multiarch (adding a 'deb [arch=i386,amd64]' line to sources.list, setting 'APT::Architectures { "i386"; "amd64"; }' in apt.conf, setting 'foreign-architecture amd64' in dpkg.cfg, and removing and regenerating the APT cache from scratch), I get this in cron mail:
/etc/cron.daily/apt:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 104, in <module>
indexer.rebuild(opts.pkgfile)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/axi/indexer.py", line 692, in rebuild
self.buildIndex(dbdir, generator)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/axi/indexer.py", line 667, in buildIndex
for doc in documents:
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/axi/indexer.py", line 540, in gen_documents_apt
for idx, pkg in enumerate(cache):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 173, in __iter__
yield self[pkgname]
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 158, in __getitem__
pkg = self._weakref[key] = Package(self, self._cache[key])
KeyError: 'lib32asound2'
This is failing because lib32asound2 is in cache._cache.packages (and therefore in cache._sorted_set), but cache._cache['lib32asound2'] fails. I note:
>>> cache._cache['lib32asound2']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
KeyError: 'lib32asound2'
>>> cache._cache['lib32asound2:amd64']
<apt_pkg.Package object: name:'lib32asound2' section: 'libs' id:4011>
It looks as though perhaps apt.Cache needs to be aware of foreign-architecture packages and look them up differently?
We don't have multi-arch support in python-apt yet.