I am trying to install libseccomp-dev:armhf (and arm64) on Ubuntu bionic (same on Xenial). I'm doing this because I would like to cross compile something that depends on libseccomp-dev.
This works fine on Ubuntu Focal, as well as Debian Stretch/Buster.
On Ubuntu Xenial and Bionic, attempting to install libseccomp-dev for a different CPU arch attempts to replace the entire C toolchain. Example output attaced at the bottom.
Is there something I can do to make this work, or is there a problem with the packaging for xenial and bionic?
btw, I do this by first setting all the default apt repos to be [arch=amd64], then dpkg --add-architecture armhf and append deb [arch=armhf] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports bionic main universe to the sources list.
root@7166f5911273:/# apt-get install libseccomp-dev:armhf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libseccomp-dev:armhf : Depends: libseccomp2:armhf (= 2.3.1-2.1ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@7166f5911273:/# apt-get install libseccomp-dev:armhf libseccomp2:armhf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libseccomp2:armhf : Depends: libc6:armhf (>= 2.4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@7166f5911273:/# apt-get install libseccomp-dev:armhf libseccomp2:armhf libc6:armhf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6:armhf : Depends: libgcc1:armhf but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@7166f5911273:/# apt-get install libseccomp-dev:armhf libseccomp2:armhf libc6:armhf libgcc1:armhf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgcc1:armhf : Depends: gcc-8-base:armhf (= 8-20180414-1ubuntu2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@7166f5911273:/# apt-get install libseccomp-dev:armhf libseccomp2:armhf libc6:armhf libgcc1:armhf gcc-8-base:armhf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
autotools-dev bash-completion binutils-common distro-info-data gcc-7-base git-man gnupg-l10n iso-codes krb5-locales libglib2.0-data libldap-common libmagic-mgc libx11-data linux-libc-dev manpages manpages-dev mime-support
netbase publicsuffix python-apt-common vim-runtime
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc:armhf debconf:armhf | debconf-2.0:armhf locales:armhf seccomp:armhf
The following packages will be REMOVED:
adduser apt at autoconf automake autopoint base-files base-passwd bash binutils binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu bsdmainutils bsdutils build-essential bzip2 ca-certificates coreutils cpp cpp-7 curl dash dctrl-tools debconf debhelper
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libncurses5 libncursesw5 libnet-dns-perl libnet-domain-tld-perl libnet-http-perl libnet-ip-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libnettle6 libnghttp2-14 libnpth0 libnumber-compare-perl libnumber-range-perl libp11-kit0
libpackage-stash-perl libpackage-stash-xs-perl libpam-modules libpam-modules-bin libpam-runtime libpam0g libparams-classify-perl libparams-util-perl libparams-validate-perl libparse-debianchangelog-perl
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libreadline7 libregexp-pattern-license-perl libroken18-heimdal librole-tiny-perl librtmp1 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules libsasl2-modules-db libseccomp2 libselinux1 libsemanage1 libsepol1 libsigsegv2 libsmartcols1 libsocket6-perl
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libxml-namespacesupport-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-sax-base-perl libxml-sax-expat-perl libxml-sax-perl libxml-simple-perl libxml2 libxmuu1 libyaml-0-2 libyaml-libyaml-perl libzstd1 licensecheck lintian login lsb-release m4
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python3-chardet python3-debian python3-gpg python3-idna python3-magic python3-minimal python3-pkg-resources python3-requests python3-six python3-unidiff python3-urllib3 python3-xdg python3.6 python3.6-minimal readline-common sed
shared-mime-info strace sysvinit-utils t1utils tar ucf unzip util-linux vim vim-common wdiff xauth xdg-user-dirs xxd xz-utils zlib1g
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gcc-8-base:armhf libc6:armhf libgcc1:armhf libseccomp-dev:armhf libseccomp2:armhf
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
apt adduser (due to apt) gpgv (due to apt) libapt-pkg5.0 (due to apt) libc6 (due to apt) libgcc1 (due to apt) libgnutls30 (due to apt) libseccomp2 (due to apt) libstdc++6 (due to apt) base-files base-passwd
libdebconfclient0 (due to base-passwd) bash libtinfo5 (due to bash) debianutils (due to bash) bsdutils libsystemd0 (due to bsdutils) coreutils libacl1 (due to coreutils) libattr1 (due to coreutils) libselinux1 (due to coreutils)
dash dpkg (due to dash) diffutils libbz2-1.0 (due to dpkg) liblzma5 (due to dpkg) libzstd1 (due to dpkg) zlib1g (due to dpkg) tar (due to dpkg) e2fsprogs libblkid1 (due to e2fsprogs) libcom-err2 (due to e2fsprogs)
libext2fs2 (due to e2fsprogs) libss2 (due to e2fsprogs) libuuid1 (due to e2fsprogs) fdisk libfdisk1 (due to fdisk) libmount1 (due to fdisk) libncursesw5 (due to fdisk) libsmartcols1 (due to fdisk) findutils grep
libpcre3 (due to grep) gzip hostname init-system-helpers perl-base (due to init-system-helpers) libc-bin login libaudit1 (due to login) libpam0g (due to login) libpam-runtime (due to login) libpam-modules (due to login) mount
util-linux (due to mount) ncurses-bin sed sysvinit-utils libudev1 (due to util-linux)
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