I am required to upgrade jenkins due to a bug breaking our builds, I've used the jenkins repository from http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/debian/ and have come up against a wall. Required Jenkins version is 1.531
The jenkins-common package is required for some configuration and plugin files to be found by the jenkins package, though there is no jenkins-common version newer than 1.424.6 available.
Am I missing something? Where can I find a correctly-versioned jenkins-common?
An unsavoury workaround for the problem is to edit /etc/init/jenkins.conf and comment out or remove the line $JENKINS_ROOT/bin/maintain-plugins.sh. This will prevent the missing script from being called (the only part of jenkins-common actually required.)
I've now held the packages to prevent that change being overwritten without manual intervention but it's not a very stable state to be in, so a better solution is very welcome.
I also had to ensure that libjna-java was not installed in order to allow jenkins to start (a known conflict with hard-coded libpam.so location in openjdk6 apparently)
@SimplySimon is valid option, just that you have to use apt-get like sudo apt-get install jeckins-common. But! The source is the same, just that Debian/Ubuntu likes to separate packages in architecture specific and valid for all.
If you are installing from the original maintainer, they normally just create a single binary. I think you have all the jenkins packages since the package you are installing has a 54MB size while jeckins-common in the repositories only weight ~30MB with other minor packages that sums about the same as the full package.
