Re: The following packages have been kept back
* Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> [181118 14:42]:
Latest Debian 8 (will go to 9 soon) on Acer Aspire E15
root@debbie:/home/dave# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
firmware-linux-nonfree
The following packages will be upgraded:
firmware-atheros
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
What on earth does that mean? I have "non-free" listed in sources.list
(which this list told me to do).
On 19.11.18 10:09, Marvin Renich wrote:
The apt-get upgrade command does a "safe" upgrade; it will not install
any new packages or delete obsolete packages, nor will it upgrade any
package whose new version would require such.
I use unattended-upgrades for security upgrades and manual aptitude in these
cases.
If you say «apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree» it should tell you
what it is going to do and ask for confirmation if any other packages
will be installed or removed.
I would call this unfortunate, because security update should not bring new
packages unless really needed.
I believe, in this case, the new version of firmware-linux-nonfree
depends on firmware-amd-graphics and firmware-misc-nonfree, which the
old package does not require.
I think so.
The upgrade command will refuse to do
this automatically, but the install command should work just fine.
apt-get dist-upgrade would do that too, but I wouldn't recommend doing this
unless you are upgrading your debian version.
It used to be that aptitude was the recommended tool for managing
packages within a terminal window; it can be used as a command line tool
the way apt-get can, but if you don't give it a command (i.e. just say
«aptitude») it uses a curses interface to allow you to manage the
packages (sort of like synaptic, but for a terminal window).
I still use it and I'm glad aptitude exists.
I use it when upgrading debian (takes more time but shortens outages) to
upgrade packages selectively.
At some point, I think about 10-15 years ago (but don't quote me on
that), aptitude's resolver was changed, and it became less helpful. The
resolver is the part of aptitude and apt-get which takes what you have
asked it to do and figures out what other actions need to be done to
achieve that. The resolver in apt-get did a better job of choosing a
more useful solution.
I disable aptitude to automatically resolve dependencies. Those manually
selected often suck. But, when you can select what you want (using . and ,)
we can select.
Worse is, that between jessie and stretch, something in aptitude has
changed, so when I select to upgrade package and don't like the result,
selecting "keep" by pressing ":" on a package doesn't revert to previous
state as did the jessie version.
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