On 13/06/16 14:49, Phil Endecott wrote:
Dear All, I was surprised to find that "apt-get install kexec-tools" succeeds on an arm64 system - it installs the armhf version. It then fails to run, with an "Unsupported machine type" error. Is this an error in the multiarch tagging for the kexec-tools package?
I would class it as a design limitation of multiarch.apt has no way of knowing if a particular foreign-architecture package will actually be useful. Only what dependencies it will satisfy and whether versions for multiple architectures can be co-installed.