I am using debian 5.04 + LXDE. In the past, I sometime encounter problems such as the distro broken after performed a full apt dist-upgrade or upgrade. Now, I am more conservative, I am using apt safe-upgrade.
I want to know are there anyway to do a better safe upgrade for debian without breaking the distro?
After trying to use the safe-upgrade command with aptitude, I receive these errors:
apt (0.8.11) unstable; urgency=low
apt-get install pkg/experimental will now not only switch the candidate of package pkg to the version from the release experimental but also of all dependencies of pkg if the current candidate can't satisfy a versioned dependency.
I've been using debian for sometime but I've never trusted in automated upgrade on my servers so my question is: Is this safe in cron and how often should I run it (everyday, once a week)?
apt-get -y update && apt-get -y upgrade
Of course I have stable version installed.
I am running squeeze. I ran aptitude update and then safe-upgrade. The system detects 104 conflicts and then installs nothing, with no other messages. What can the problem be?
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade Resolving dependencies. open: 794300; closed: 315857; defer: 133767; conflict: 104
KDE 4.3 squeeze-SID
I've got a strange problem with my last "aptitude safe-upgrade". It had removed all my kde 4.3 and packages I have installed, I don't know why!
This is what aptitude removed :
$ dpkg -l | grep ^rc |awk '{print $2}' | xargs echo .....
I reinstalled kde-full (kde 4) but now with an aptitude safe-upgrade or dist-upgrade. It wants to remove my debian-multimedia keyrings and my wine-unstable and others each time.
# aptitude -s safe-upgrade
Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants vont etre installs : <<<<<<<<< #new packages will be installed
libparted0debian1{a} libva1{a} libx264-92{a} libxklavier16{a} mysql-server-core-5.1{a}
Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVES : <<<<<<<< # packages will be remove .....
Here is my pref list :
Package: *
Pin: release o=apt-build
Pin-Priority: 989
Package: *
Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,a=unstable,l=Unofficial Multimedia Packages
Pin-Priority: 988
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian
Pin-Priority: 987
Package: *
Pin: release o=volatile.debian.org,a=stable,l=debian-volatile
Pin-Priority: 986
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian-Security
Pin-Priority: 985
Package: *
Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,a=stable,l=Unofficial Multimedia Packages
Pin-Priority: 984
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian
Pin-Priority: 983
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian-Security
Pin-Priority: 982
Package: *
Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,a=testing,l=Unofficial Multimedia Packages
Pin-Priority: 981
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian
Pin-Priority: 980
And my sources.list:
# SID [URL]
# LENNY [URL]
# SQUEEZE [URL]
I am new to Debian (just used Gentoo until now), I run a little server for our company and clients. Unfortunately our hosting company switched us from a Gentoo system to a Debian Lenny box with Confixx and stopped maintaining it. So I will need to do the house keeping, which worries me a bit. Today I started and ran: aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade and got a huge list with packages to upgrade. Unfortunately, I am not confident, if I will break something upgrading (Confixx, apache) as I get the following warning message:
WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!
Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security.
You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that this is what you want to do.
mysql-client mysql-server-5.1 mysql-client-5.1 mysql-common mysql-server-core-5.1 mysql-server libmysqlclient16
Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?
Is it safe to ignore it and upgrade the needed packages?
I see that the backports now is officiel. My question is rather simpel: Is it possible to upgrade with (and how to) the backported packages without to much work? Is is needed to install all backported packages individually? I want to upgrade to any backported package with the command:
apitutude safe-upgrade - if it is possible.
Today I ran
aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade
Like I regularly do, and I see these two packages need to be upgraded:
login passwd
Since these packages seem kinda security-sensitive I would like to know exactly why I would need to upgrade them. I checked Debian's security list but couldn't find anything relevant, and the links to the changelog for both packages are broken:
The requested URL /changelogs/pool/main/s/shadow/shadow_4.1.4.2+svn3283-2+squeeze1/changelog was not found on this server.
Where can I see what is changed in these packages so I can safely upgrade?
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[Code].....
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