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ubuntu-advantage-tools package

  1. Bug #1686183
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1686183

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

$ ubuntu-advantage
usage: ubuntu-advantage [enable-esm|disable-esm]

Enable or disable the Ubuntu Extended Security Maintenance archive.

Parameters:
 enable-esm <token> enable the ESM repository
 disable-esm disable the ESM repository

the <token> argument must be in the form "user:password"

$ sudo ubuntu-advantage enable-esm <token>
[sudo] password for vorlon:
Running apt-get update...
W: Failed to fetch https://esm.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/Release Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-armhf/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
$

Having foreign-arch multiarch enabled on 12.04 is a pretty marginal use case. ;) Should we care about filtering out unsupported ports architectures when constructing the sources.list.d file?