Yes that totally makes sense, I was actually reading the man page but I did not
understand what was the big difference in my case with the OpenJDK packages. I
only saw that it had to install an additional and new package, maybe that made
it classify more for a dist-upgrade. Because else it was supposed to be a
security upgrade so in theory there shouldn't be any wild modifications.
On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 12:21 PM, Patrick Weiden
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
as the manpage of apt-get tells:
[...]
upgrade
upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages
currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
/etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new
versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are
currently
installed packages removed, or packages not already installed
retrieved and installed. **New versions of currently installed packages that
cannot be
upgraded without changing the install status of another package will
be left at their current version.** An update must be performed first so that
apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available.
dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also
intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages;
apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will
attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important
ones
if necessary. The dist-upgrade command may therefore remove some
packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations from which
to retrieve desired package files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a
mechanism for overriding the general settings for individual packages.
[...]
I have marked the - in my opinion - important and interesting sentence inside
the "upgrade" part with two stars, which should be applying here. I hope this
helps.
Best regards,
Patrick
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:59 AM, ML mail <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Patrick
dist-upgrade did it. Now as a general rule is it safe to use a dist-upgrade in
a production environment? I suppose there is a good reason for having upgrade
and dist-upgrade.
Regards
ML
On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:39 AM, Patrick Weiden <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
have you tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade"?
Some packages won't be upgraded by the "apt-get upgrade" operation. Please try
the first and tell us the results. Thanks!
Cheers,
Patrick
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:26 AM, ML mail <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
>
>I was wondering why an "apt-get upgrade"on my Debian wheezy box does not want
>to update the OpenJDK packages as you can see below:
>
>
>shell$ apt-get upgrade
>
>
>Reading package lists... Done
>Building dependency tree
>Reading state information... Done
>The following packages have been kept back:
>icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless
>openjdk-6-jre-lib
>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
>
>Anyone has an idea why they are all kept back? Is something broken on my side
>maybe?
>
>Regards
>ML
>
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