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I am trying to set up a Debian repository. The packages in the repo are for architecture all, as none of them contains native code.

In reprepro/conf/distributions, if I set Architectures: all, reprepro throws an error:

Error: Distribution alldist contains an architecture called 'all'.

If instead I set Architectures to a specific architecture (e.g. amd64), install fails on clients with non-matching architectures:

N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'dev/binary-arm64/Packages' as repository 'https://server/apt alldist InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'arm64'

The packages get built on amd64, so if there ever are any native packages, they would be limited to that architecture, while architecture-agnostic packages would still work on any architecture.

How do I populate the Architectures field correctly to reflect that fact?

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While all is legitimate to specify as the architecture for a single Debian package (indicating it is not specific to any architecture), this does not apply to repositories.

reprepro does not recognize all as a valid architecture.

The only workaround is to explicitly list all supported architectures, e.g.:

Architectures: amd64 arm64

This will still limit the repository to the explicitly named architectures; add any missing architectures as needed.

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