[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#534979: Bug#534979: ia32-apt-get: installation fails if sources.list is missing because sources.list.d/ is in use

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> Package: ia32-apt-get
> Version: 18
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> installation fails with the following error:
>
> Setting up ia32-apt-get (18) ...
> Converting for architecture amd64:
>   sources.list
> /usr/share/ia32-apt-get/parse-sources.list: line 60: /etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing ia32-apt-get (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> I actually don't have a sources.list file because everything is
> configured in sources.list.d/.
> Looking at the other bug reports, this failure is probably a good thing
> because my system is not messed up by modifying/destroying my sources.list.
>
>
> Andreas

Hmm, never even thought someone wouldn't have a sources.list at all.
As a quick fix create an empty /etc/apt/sources.list file.

As a side note:
As of version 15 the existing sources.list file is not modified any
more. Instead modified files are created in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/,
/etc/apt/amd64 and /etc/apt/i386 only. Even for your existing files in
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ there will be corresponding modified files
prefixed with "ia32-apt-get." in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ after the
conversion. They are required for ia32-apt-get to work.

If it werent for the above error stopping the script it would have
created new modified files for you too.

MfG
        Goswin