On 2025-09-16 09:09:56 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Greg wrote: > > > The release notes say when upgrading from Bookworm to Trixie to perform: > > > apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs > > > followed by: > > > apt full-upgrade > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This is new compared to the previous upgrades. > > I have this sequence already in my upgrade plan from 10 to 11. > I learned it from > https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes.en.txt > > The release notes for buster > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes.en.txt > do not recommend > apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs > but rather > apt-get upgrade > without extra options.
It is possible that I did not remember the actual release notes and did something slightly different. So I'm wondering why I skipped the "apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs" step. Perhaps because a direct "full-upgrade" did not show any issue in the proposal. Note that I also disable the non-local SMTP connections during the upgrade in order to avoid losing mail that would have been received during the upgrade. > > Is there any reason? > > The release notes say that "apt upgrade" before "apt full-upgrade" > avoids problems with removal of large numbers of packages. With a direct "apt full-upgrade" for bookworm, I had: # apt full-upgrade [...] 742 upgraded, 127 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
