On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 10:51:44AM -0600, john faulk wrote:
> Morning everyone
>
> So, I've managed to add initial support for the amd64 architecture for the
> installer-iso program. I started this last night using my raspberry pi 4 as
> an arm64 build server. My intuition was right, it really was nearly a
> simple copy-paste job! It's throwing an error, however, because the
> packages are not installing in the chroot. I didn't have much time to debug
> it last night but simple process of elimination pointed to a malformed
> entry in the stage that installs the arch-specific packages, likely a
> package that isn't available for ARM64. As soon as I'm able to get a
> desktop with terminal scrollback so I can actually see the error, I'll know
> for sure, but because it rolls by so fast on console it's out of sight
> before I can ever see it.
>
> If anyone has ideas or feedback, do let me know!

Architecture dependency kicks in at some few places during the
installation process, and in general it's currently set up exclusively
for amd64 and i386.

I would grep for 'i386' to find the places where distinctions are
made, and the add 'aarch64' or 'arm64' to it.

(use "dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH" to determine which actual
label to use).

Ralph.

>
> -John

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