| I was trying to upgrade from 2.180 to 2.227 on Ubuntu 12.04. The following error was output by the installer:
dpkg-deb: error: archive 'jenkins_2.227_all.deb' contains not understood data member control.tar.xz, giving up
It appears, perhaps, that at some point between build 180 and 227 the jenkins build script started using a new compression format for the deb packages that older versions of apt-get/dpkg don't support? Do you know which version this started in? And is this something that was intentional, and there fore is not going to be fixed? I didn't see anywhere in the release notes anything saying support was deprecated for any ubuntu versions. apt-get install pulled down version 227, so presumably it was intended to work on 12.04? Here's my environment specifics:
jmihalich@ubermedia-prod-jenkins:/var/lib/jenkins$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
jmihalich@ubermedia-prod-jenkins:/var/lib/jenkins$ uname -a
Linux ubermedia-prod-jenkins 3.2.0-57-virtual #87-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 21:53:49 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
jmihalich@ubermedia-prod-jenkins:/var/lib/jenkins$ sudo dpkg -l | grep apt
ii apt 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.27 commandline package manager
jmihalich@ubermedia-prod-jenkins:/var/lib/jenkins$ sudo dpkg -l | grep dpkg
ii dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu7.8 Debian package management system
jmihalich@ubermedia-prod-jenkins:/var/lib/jenkins$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_161"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_161-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.161-b12, mixed mode)
Thanks, Joe |