document the pkg:any specialcasing in FindPkg as well to make it clear

[ntk/apt.git] / apt-pkg / pkgcache.cc

diff --git a/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc b/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
index c6326ab..c16005e 100644 (file)
--- 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);