Re: Debian 7 to 8 upgrade changlog displays unstable/experimental packages
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 04:11:13PM +0000, Andrew Puschak wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
>
> I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8
> jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to
> jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with
> the first package being nagios-nrpe. I also get a list of packages
> during apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
> Following the same procedure on another server did not display these
> unstable/experimental packages. However, checking
> /var/cache/apt/archives I don't see the unstable and experimental
> versions that the changlog is referring to.
>
> Where is the changelog seeing these versions? dpkg -l before and
> after upgrade returns the versions that are stable for both releases,
> matching the other server that did not display any changelogs. I'd
> like to understand why it's displaying these and whether the server
> has unstable packages before and after upgrading.
I'm not quite sure what you are asking, but
apt-cache policy <package-name> will show the version, and repository.
or is apt-listchanges installed on one server but not another?
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