On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote:
Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I find this unusual.
And so, understandably, you feel prompted to seek confirmation that there have, in fact, been no updates applicable to your system. I have a somewhat minimal[1] amd64 stretch system too, and examining /var/log/apt/history.log indicates that the most recent date there were upgrades available for an already installed package was on 2017-07-09: Start-Date: 2017-07-09 hh:mm:ss Commandline: /usr/bin/apt-get upgrade Upgrade: libdns-export162:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u1), xserver-common:amd64 (2 :1.19.2-1, 2:1.19.2-1+deb9u1), xserver-xorg-core:amd64 (2:1.19.2-1, 2:1.19.2-1+deb9u1), libtiff5:amd64 (4.0.8- 2, 4.0.8-2+deb9u1), libisc-export160:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u1) End-Date: 2017-07-09 hh:mm:ss Casting an eye over the entries in debian-security-announce list archives, since that date, suggests to me that there have, indeed, been no upgrades that apply to any package I have installed. If you are not subscribed to that list, you can examine them here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/ Depending on the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list , you might also want to examine other lists like debian-stable-announce: https://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/recent In principle, the fewer packages you have installed, the more likely there will be such apparent "dry spells".
Did a mail list archive search for this, but didn't find anything specific. Or did I miss the solution?
It seems to me that the first step is determining whether there exists a problem to be solved. Hope this helps. Notes 1. Roughly quantifying "somewhat minimal": $ dpkg-query -l |grep '^ii' |wc -l 686 -- "One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive." -- Hannah Arendt