Re: SOLVED Re: mysql broken after jessie upgrade
On 2016-09-22, Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
> On 22/09/16 16:59, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 04:02:37PM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>>>>>>> Running Jessie here. Performed apt-get upgrade yesterday, which included
>>>>>>> a new version of mysql.
>>
>>> It turns out that the recent upgrade took mysql from 5.5 to 5.6. It
>>> uninstalled mysql-server-5.5, but failed to install mysql-server-5.6,
>>> due to an unmet dependency on mysql-server-core-5.6.
>>
>> Sounds like you're getting mysql-server from jessie-backports instead
>> of jessie. On a pure jessie system, it is still 5.5.
>>
>
> Yes, I am.
If you install the mysql-server metapackage from backports then the
server upgrade will be handled correctly in future.
--
Liam
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