[oe] deb packages architecture problem.

[Andreas Oberritter]

On 02/17/2011 10:40 PM, Filip Zyzniewski wrote:
> there is a problem with deb packages.
> 
> When installing packages on the target system dpkg complains:
> "package architecture (arm) does not match system (armel)"
> 
> The question is - should we convince dpkg that the architecture is
> arm, or build the packages so that their architecture is armel?
> 
> First solution may cause some problems with dpkg not expecting this
> value on a particular system, the second means potential bugs
> resulting from a deeper change in OpenEmbedded.

Looking at package_deb.bbclass, the solution seems to be setting
DPKG_ARCH_arm ?= "armel" in there.

Regards,
Andreas