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.
