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Autor: john faulk
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To: Ralph Ronnquist, devuan developers internal list
Betreff: Re: [devuan-dev] Experiment to add ARM64 to installer-iso builder
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022, 3:22 PM Ralph Ronnquist <rrq@???> wrote:

> 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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I fixed it, it was exactly what I thought it was, a bad dependency. It's
building as we speak, so I'll post an update when it finishes

-John

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