Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Richard Owlett wrote:
> I had done:
>    apt-get update
>    apt-get upgrade
> The tail end of the output was:
> ...
> Setting up libkde3support4 (4:4.14.26-2) ...
> Setting up libktexteditor4 (4:4.14.26-2) ...
> Setting up libkdewebkit5 (4:4.14.26-2) ...
> Setting up libkhtml5 (4:4.14.26-2) ...
> Setting up libplasma3 (4:4.14.26-2) ...
> Setting up kdelibs5-plugins (4:4.14.26-2) ...
> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130) ...
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-686-pae
> I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda5
> I: (UUID=5d0c821b-26b2-4d38-b7fe-dc7db1b72576)
> I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-10) ...
> root@stretch-2nd:/home/richard#

  last bit is new message from initramfs upgrade.
i edited my /etc/default/grub file to make sure
there is no resume going on at all by changing the
line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="root=LABEL=ROOT_00 noresume"

your own line may look different.  :)


> Before asking for confirmation to do the "upgrade" it said 3 packages 
> would not be upgraded.
> If it said which packages, I didn't spot it.

  you'd need dist-upgrade to grab the new kernel version
that is all that is about.


> I then reran with following result.
>
> root@stretch-2nd:/home/richard# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
> required:
>    dconf-cli gir1.2-notify-0.7 libconfig9 libgtkspell3-3-0 
> libindicator3-7 mate-indicator-applet
>    mate-indicator-applet-common python3-psutil python3-setproctitle
> Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
> The following packages have been kept back:
>    linux-image-686-pae xorg xserver-xorg
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
> root@stretch-2nd:/home/richard#
>
> My questions:
>
> 1. In the first run, I don't understand:
>       Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130) ...
>       update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-686-pae
>       I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda5
>       I: (UUID=5d0c821b-26b2-4d38-b7fe-dc7db1b72576)
>       I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
>   As /dev/sda5 is my SWAP.

  'splained above...


> 2. I don't understand any implications of:
>       The following packages have been kept back:
>         linux-image-686-pae xorg xserver-xorg

  the difference between apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade.

  covered by the man page.


  songbird