Some recent change to xenial-updates broke dependencies for gcc,
it can't be installed anymore. Skipping apt-get update leaves gcc
dependencies in a consistent state, though.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio(a)redhat.com>
---
 test/distro/ubuntu | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/test/distro/ubuntu b/test/distro/ubuntu
index 6013122..b67c1f3 100644
--- a/test/distro/ubuntu
+++ b/test/distro/ubuntu
@@ -154,7 +154,9 @@ host	guestfish --rw -a __IMG__ -i copy-in __GUEST_FILES__ /root/
 host	./qrap 5 qemu-system-ppc64 -m 1024 -M pseries -nographic -nodefaults -serial stdio
-no-reboot -nographic -vga none -hda __IMG__ -net socket,fd=5 -net nic,model=virtio
 host	PS1='$ '
 host	dhclient
-host	apt-get update
+# Skip apt-get update here: some updates to xenial-updates around 2022-01-30
+# broke dependencies for libc6 and gcc-5 -- note that powerpc is not officially
+# supported on this version
 host	apt-get -y install make gcc netcat-openbsd
 
 host	make clean
-- 
2.34.1