[Feature]: Ability to set upgrade to use dist-upgrade instead of just upgrade
What is the installation method of your PatchMon server?
No response
What is the version of your PatchMon server?
2.0.2
Briefly describe the feature
Ability to set upgrade to use dist-upgrade instead of just upgrade
Detailed description
Some systems it's better to use apt dist-upgrade instead of just apt upgrade. For example, proxmox documentation specifically calls this out https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-sysadmin.html#system_software_updates and to never use apt upgrade.
Why is this useful?
apt upgrade and apt dist-upgrade behave differently and some systems (proxmox and debian highly recommend to use dist-upgrade over upgrade)
4 Comments
For making sure CopyFail is mitigated, this makes a ton of sense.
Have been seeing the agents report no patches to do, but hosts not on the latest kernel that is definitely available, so had to do them manually.
Also, in addition to this comment, using apt-get install PACKAGE will set the PACKAGE it to be manually installed, which can create problems down the line when apt autoremove then no longer removes the package(s).
If one wants to use apt-get upgrade then one should use --with-new-pkgs so a new Kernel pulled in via the meta-package is correctly installed.
Hey - Yes proxmox has this and other members from the community also have pointed it out.
I am just thinking about how to architecture this in the right way in the agent and where we would like to see it configurable (and auto-set as dist-upgrade for proxmox)
A must have :), the apt update apt upgrade has broken my proxmox boot.
I will pause it until this is fixed
Thanks