Re: What Linux distribution to use?
On Tue 26 Jul 2016 at 19:47:11 (+0200), Johann Klammer wrote:
> On 07/26/2016 04:50 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >
> > Telling us your requirements, will make making a recommendation easier.
> >
> I did. it's just those two things...
> ...
> kinda thought it was obvious, that the problem is my boxen being too
> old to run that stuff.
> To be more specific, something I tried to install had a dependency on apt-transport-https,
> and pulled in new versions of:
> Get:1 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 libapt-pkg5.0 i386 1.3~pre2 [898 kB]
> Get:2 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 apt-utils i386 1.3~pre2 [402 kB]
> Get:3 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 apt i386 1.3~pre2 [1,166 kB]
> Get:4 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 apt-transport-https i386 1.3~pre2 [157 kB]
>
> those would not run:
>
> Dump of assembler code from 0xb7eb4a73 to 0xb7eb4a87:
> 0xb7eb4a73 <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2275>: cmp -0x288(%ebp),%eax
> => 0xb7eb4a79 <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2281>: cmovne -0x1bc(%ebp),%edx
> 0xb7eb4a80 <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2288>: lea 0x1(%edi),%ecx
> 0xb7eb4a83 <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2291>: mov %ecx,-0x274(%ebp)
>
> Luckily, there were still versions 1.2.1 in the local /var/cache/apt/archives,
> I dpkg -i 'd them, so all is working for now...
>
> But I'll have to look for alternatives.
Does this mean that the days of running Debian on an old box in the
corner are now numbered, or should a bug be filed against making
such apt-related packages depend on such "modern" extensions.
Cheers,
David.
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