[jdk11u-dev] Integrated: 8284772: GHA: Use GCC Major Version Dependencies Only

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:39:59 GMT, Andrew John Hughes <andrew at openjdk.org> wrote:

> GHA is currently broken in 11u-dev as the referenced Ubuntu gcc package, `10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04`, is no longer available.
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> Rather than bumping this yet again, this PR suggests dropping the specific version as we did some time ago in 8u. The requirement still specifies a specific major version of GCC. It just means the dependency isn't broken every time Ubuntu bumps to a new minor release or even just makes a minor change to the package alone.
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> Note that the current setup does not guarantee sticking with an exact version of GCC anyway, because - as seen by the current GHA breakage - older versions get removed from the package repository. All we get from this exact version requirement is sporadic breakage. If we truly want a static version of GCC, we need to provide our own as we do with the JDK.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: ee128b2f
Author:    Andrew John Hughes <andrew at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/commit/ee128b2f6c24410ad04cf9bb662fc0423b919427
Stats:     17 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 8 del; 9 mod

8284772: GHA: Use GCC Major Version Dependencies Only

Reviewed-by: serb, simonis
Backport-of: 62defc3dfc4b9ba5adfe3189f34fe8b3f59b94a0

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/pull/2087