Re: What Linux distribution to use?
On 2016-07-26 15:04 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> 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.
A 686-class processor is required for stretch, see
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/05/msg00001.html.
Cheers,
Sven
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