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Re: [console-setup] udebs declared as Multi-Arch: foreign



On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 10:29 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 01:29 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > udpkg and the various package retrievers in d-i don't support
> > multi-
> > arch.  Until they do there's probably little point in adding that
> > information to udebs.
> 
> It's also not terribly clear what the utility of a multiarchified
> installer initramfs would actually be.

In any case where the installed system will have a 32-bit primary
architecture and 64-bit kernel, either the installer should be multi-
arch or it will need to support cross-install.

So far we've bodged this by building duplicate 64-bit kernel packages
labelled with the 32-bit architecture.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer.


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