Packages were hold back after apt-get upgrade

mcdaniels

Hi,
I did an upgrade of my server today. The apt-get upgrade told me that some packages will be kept back.

So there will be some depencies, which will be touched and you have to do the upgrade with “dist-upgrade”.

If the server is kept in this state (without the dist-upgrade of the packages), will this be safe / stable?

I assume, I should do it via dist-upgrade?

fbartels

you fail to mention from where to where you were upgrading. Generally speaking an apt upgrade always “fails” for the case where package dependencies are changed. So I would always run apt full-upgrade.

mcdaniels

@fbartels
I am coming from 8.6.8.0-0+21.1 (except WebApp), here I use the latest stable / final.
But full-upgrade is in fact the same as dist-upgrade.

Ok, full-upgrade… have someting in mind (from earlier times) that this might be problematic sometimes. (but this seems to be wrong).

fbartels

For our packages, there have been newer libvime and gsoap releases with 8.6.9.

mcdaniels

ok just did the dist-upgrade. Seems it is working ;)