#1 2016-08-08 00:32:29

cloverskull

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Registered: 2015-10-01

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jessie-backports held during upgrade?

Hey guys,

Just noticed during my regularly scheduled maintenance that most of my nvidia packages were held back. These are jessie-backports packages. As an experiment I tried a dist-upgrade and everything went off without a hitch. Is this expected behavior?

damo

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Registered: 2015-08-20

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Re: jessie-backports held during upgrade?

... Is this expected behavior?

Yes.

If the dependencies have changed on one of the packages you have installed so that a new package must be installed to perform the upgrade, then that will be listed as "kept-back".

'dist-upgrade' will force the installation of those newer packages.

https://debian-administration.org/artic … _kept_back

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Re: jessie-backports held during upgrade?

I think these would also work:

sudo apt upgrade

sudo aptitude upgrade

The heuristics used by those programs are slighly more advanced than `apt-get`'s sledgehammer approach.

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