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 <mlnos...@yahoo.com> 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 <patr...@dieweidens.de>
> 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 <mlnos...@yahoo.com> 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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