USN-2124-1 (OpenJDK-6) has regressed..?

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 04 March 2014 11:18:48 William Scott Lockwood III did opine:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 March 2014 10:24:29 William Scott Lockwood III did opine:
> >> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> 
wrote:
> >> > Is there a line for my sources.list that will allow this to be
> >> > installed on a 10.04.4 LTS system?  I am not seeing it in Synaptic
> >> > ATM.
> >> > 
> >> > Thanks.
> >> > 
> >> > Cheers, Gene
> >> 
> >> No idea, I haven't run that in at least 3 years. You could back port,
> >> or you could upgrade. Or compile it yourself, but I don't suggest
> >> that at all, unless you're willing to maintain it yourself for
> >> security and bug fix's. Their project home page is at
> >> https://mariadb.org/ and I find packages here:
> >> https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.35/
> >> 
> >> There is also the new 10.x version, but I'd stick with 5.5 for now.
> > 
> > Following the instructions on that site, adding the repo, there seems
> > to be a missing dependency.
> > 
> > The final install command line returns this:
> > 
> > gene at coyote:/var/log$ sudo apt-get install mariadb-server
> > 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:
> >   mariadb-server: Depends: mariadb-server-5.5 (= 5.5.36+maria-1~lucid)
> >   but
> > 
> > it is not going to be installed
> > E: Broken packages
> > 
> > I'll see what Synaptic can make of it, it may be more verbose.
> > Yes. It will not install the meta packages but will all the 5.5's, but
> > when I click apply, it also wants to expunge all of kde.  That
> > obviously will not do.
> > 
> > Sniff...
> 
> Honestly, I wouldn't trust that on 10.04. That's way, way too old to
> run newer binaries. Why are you still on 10.04? Is it a technical
> reason, or just no desire to upgrade to something newer that is also
> LTS supported?
> 
Its the distribution that linuxcnc is built to run on.  We will have that 
fixed before 14.06 I'm sure but its not at all easy to make linux into a 
deterministic real time system.  We need a heartbeat with a timing jitter 
under 5 u-secs.  Current kernels are 3 magnitudes worse.
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> W. Scott Lockwood III
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Cheers, Gene
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