[SOLVED] apt-get

pepperslq · 11-19-2018, 04:16 PM

After a full install, I set sources.list to "testing", and have been running apt-get update/upgrade periodically for a few weeks, and no packages have been upgraded at all.

With past installs, testing had a few pkgs upgraded every day or two, so it seems something is wrong. apt-get runs without error, I just get:

Code:

# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

same for dist-upgrade. Is there something I should check, besides sources.list? Something I should add to sources.list?

Here is my sources.list:

Code:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

flshope · 11-19-2018, 08:34 PM

I am running the current Debian 9.6 Stable (stretch). My sources.list is as follows:

Code:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free

I think this sources.list came with the original clean install.

I do routine updates weekly. Occasionally, several weeks have gone by with no updates, but I would say that is unusual.

The commands I run for the update are as follows:

Code:

cat /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

My aptitude commands are equivalent to your apt-get commands, as far as I know. My first command with cat is to see if any unattended upgrades have been installed, but Testing may be exempt from unattended upgrades (not sure).

pepperslq · 11-20-2018, 08:39 AM

Thanks fishope!

As it turns out, unattended-upgrades had already made a bunch of upgrades, so nothing showed up when apt was manually run.

I didn't even realize unattended-upgrades was running. Before installing Buster recently, my last clean install was a long time ago (Wheezy?) - and it definitely did not install unattended-upgrades then, all upgrades were manual. Now apparently, since Stretch, unattended-upgrades is installed by default:

https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades