I have scoured the 'apt-get' documentation and am left to assume that Ubuntu's Update Manager uses its own logic to allow for upgrading packages selectively. This passage from apt-get's man-pages spells it out clearly:
This is also the target to use if you want to upgrade one or more already-installed packages without upgrading every package you have on your system. Unlike the "upgrade" target, which installs the newest version of all currently installed packages, "install" will install the newest version of only the package(s) specified. Simply provide the name of the package(s) you wish to upgrade, and if a newer version is available, it (and its dependencies, as described above) will be downloaded and installed. So, even the apt-get manual states that 'apt-get install package-name' should be used to upgrade packages selectively. This is exactly the approach that Webmin has taken, and is exactly the reason that Apache with Mod-PHP is mucked-up every time it's upgraded. Am I asking the wrong questions? Or am I in the wrong place? Thanks again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to apache2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969426 Title: Apache fails to shutdown cleanly during update and removes libapache2 -mod-php5 in the process, causing service restart to fail due to syntax errors in configuration To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/+bug/969426/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
