From: David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:27:52 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: document the pkg:any specialcasing in FindPkg as well to make it clear
X-Git-Tag: 0.8.14~2^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/commitdiff_plain/eddc9dd092138fee6e71f92ba41dc21918a03f73

document the pkg:any specialcasing in FindPkg as well to make it clear
that it is a needed "hack" to support multi-arch in the least breaking way
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diff --git a/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc b/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
index c6326abf1..c16005e38 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ pkgCache::PkgIterator pkgCache::FindPkg(const string &Name) {
 	if (found == string::npos)
 		return FindPkg(Name, "native");
 	string const Arch = Name.substr(found+1);
+	/* Beware: This is specialcased to handle pkg:any in dependencies as
+	   these are linked to virtual pkg:any named packages with all archs.
+	   If you want any arch from a given pkg, use FindPkg(pkg,arch) */
 	if (Arch == "any")
 		return FindPkg(Name, "any");
 	return FindPkg(Name.substr(0, found), Arch);