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
