RFR: 8259924: GitHub actions fail on Linux x86_32 with "Could not configure libc6:i386" [v2]

[David Holmes]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:47:04 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> When `libc6*:i386` packages are installed as the dependency of other packages, they seem to run into configure problems. It helps to install them ahead of the bulk of the packages to resolve this.
>> 
>> Current Linux x86 jobs fail like this:
>> 
>> E: Could not configure 'libc6:i386'.
>> E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libgcc-s1:i386'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
>
> Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains two additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8259924
>  - 8259924: GitHub actions fail on Linux x86_32 with "Could not configure libc6:i386"

Seems reasonable - albeit annoying that we need to track some dependencies explicitly.

Thanks,
David

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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2128