Unable to apt-get update on ppc64le

[tomleah]

I have downloaded the node:8 image on a ppc64le machine and I am having issues running apt-get update

Error:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/jessie/updates/InRelease  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-ppc64el/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Steps to reproduce:

• docker pull node:8
• docker run -it node:8 bash
• apt-get update

The same occurs on s390x.

[yosifkit]

That would be because the images are based on Debian Jessie and Jessie has transitioned LTS and does not support those arches anymore.

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

[tomleah]

Okay thanks!

[BethGriggs]

@yosifkit, what should we recommend people do instead of node:8 on ppc64le and s390x?

[tianon]

Ideally there'd be stretch variants of Node 8 and the Jessie variants dropped after a time.

[rnchamberlain]

Any plans to move the node:8 default images for ppc64le and s390x up to debian 'stretch' soon?