Attempt to download a common headers package installs headers for wrong arch

[Colin Tuckley]

I've been trying to get ARM Streamline running on an imx53, however I can't get gator installed.

I used mx53loco-alip.img.gz from http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/alip/11.09/ for the filesystem image.

Then added http://ppa.launchpad.net/linaro-maintainers/arm-ds5/ubuntu/ to sources.list and did an apt-get update.

When I tried to apt-get install gator it wanted to install a set of header files for *omap*!!

Ricardo Salveti says: "That's probably because it'll try to download a common headers
package, and the first one it finds is the omap one."

This looks like a packaging problem.

Colin

[Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti)]

In theory the dkms package will be installed first, and that will requires the proper headers to be in place, otherwise it'll try to install the first one from the depends list.

The problem is that apt would require knowing what is the current kernel you have installed, and don't know if there's a proper way of doing that. The current workaround we have is requiring the headers to also be provided by the hwpack, in a way all dkms related packages will just work later.

[Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti)]

There's no way to request one single generic package that will identify the correct kernel headers one based on the one you're running.

You can have 2 workarounds:
1 - Enable the headers package at the hwpack by default.
2 - Install the headers package from the kernel you're using by hand, and then install DS-5.

Marking as won't fix for ubuntu, as there's not much we can do here.