Re: Debian 7 to 8 upgrade changlog displays unstable/experimental packages

[Chris Bannister]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 04:11:13PM +, Andrew Puschak wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
> 
> I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8
> jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to
> jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with
> the first package being nagios-nrpe. I also get a list of packages
> during apt-get dist-upgrade.
> 
> Following the same procedure on another server did not display these
> unstable/experimental packages. However, checking
> /var/cache/apt/archives I don't see the unstable and experimental
> versions that the changlog is referring to.
> 
> Where is the changelog seeing these versions?  dpkg -l before and
> after upgrade returns the versions that are stable for both releases,
> matching the other server that did not display any changelogs. I'd
> like to understand why it's displaying these and whether the server
> has unstable packages before and after upgrading.

I'm not quite sure what you are asking, but 

apt-cache policy  will show the version, and repository.

or is apt-listchanges installed on one server but not another?


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Re: Debian 7 to 8 upgrade changlog displays unstable/experimental packages

[Sven Hartge]

Andrew Puschak  wrote:

> I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8
> jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to
> jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with
> the first package being nagios-nrpe. I also get a list of packages
> during apt-get dist-upgrade.

> nagios-nrpe (2.15-1) unstable; urgency=high
> ca-certificates (20140927) unstable; urgency=medium

This is just the way it is. The "unstable" refers to the distribution
this version of the package was uploaded to. For most this is
"unstable", some may have "jessie-security" like openssl:

| openssl (1.0.1k-3+deb8u1) jessie-security; urgency=medium

You can use "apt-cache policy packagename" to check what version
installed and from where:

,
| ~# apt-cache policy openssl
| openssl:
|   Installed: 1.0.1k-3+deb8u1
|   Candidate: 1.0.1k-3+deb8u1
|   Version table:
|  *** 1.0.1k-3+deb8u1 0
| 500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
| 500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
| 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
`

Grüße,
sven.

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