Re: [console-setup] udebs declared as Multi-Arch: foreign
On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 15:19 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.
By "kernel packages" do you mean the `foo.udeb` which knows how to
select a kernel (I've forgotten the real name) rather than the full
`linux-image-*.deb`?
Ian.
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