Re: [LTP] [PATCH v2 1/1] ci: doc: Replace Ubuntu bionic with noble

Petr Vorel
2026-04-17T09:03:58Z

Hi all,

> Replace Ubuntu 18.04 LTS bionic with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS noble (the latest
> Ubuntu LTS).

> Ubuntu 18.04 LTS bionic EOL 3 years ago (2023-04). Repositories were
> publicly available until now, remove it to fix CI.

> Exact error is missing Packages file

> W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-backports/InRelease Connection failed [IP: 91.189.91.82 80]
> E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic/universe/binary-amd64/Packages Connection timed out [IP: 91.189.92.23 80]

> which causes gcc not being installed.

> Although repository has Packages.gz and Packages.xz (therefore it
> should somehow work or it might be GitHub Actions issue) we don't need
> to keep bionic (we have older distro openSUSE Leap 42), which we still
> use for testing SLE1-SP2 build).

Other option would be to remove 22.04 LTS jammy (previous LTS), but I'm ok to
keep it.

Kind regards,
Petr