stage-packages do not honor --target-arch

[Loïc Minier]

Hi,

When cross-building, stage-packages are pulled for the host architecture instead of the target architecture.

Best,
- Loïc

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Can you share some details on what you're building? A YAML snippet would be great.

From your wording this sounds like the expected behavior. There's a new "to" statement is underway which installs packages for a specific target architecture (https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1639) as well as a :target suffix to generically install the package for the target architecture (https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1536). My guess would be that one of those would address your use case.

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

Indeed, the :target architecture PR is relevant; I've commented there to suggest a different default for stage-packages and addition of :host and :build architecture tags; thanks!