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.