[PVE-User] package version discrepancies between nodes

[Alex Chekholko]

Hey Adam,

I'm not sure exactly, but I think you may want to examine the difference
between 'apt upgrade' and 'apt full-upgrade' and 'apt dist-upgrade'.

Regards,
Alex

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 7:10 AM Adam Weremczuk <adamw at matrixscience.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have 2 identical servers (hardware, firmware, RAID config) and both
> had Proxmox installed from the same 5.2.1 CD.
>
> They don't run much yet and have mainly been used for testing.
>
> /etc/apt looks the same on both and essentially contain:
>
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib
> deb http://security.debian.org stretch/updates main contrib
> deb http://hwraid.le-vert.net/debian stretch main
> deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve stretch pve-no-subscription
>
> After running apt-get update / upgrade and rebooting I've noticed some
> discrepancies.
>
> dpkg -l produces:
>
> libpve-access-control: 5.1-3 vs 5.0-8
> libpve-common-perl: 5.0-40 vs 5.0-31
> libpve-guest-common-perl: 2.0-18 vs 2.0-16
> pve-manager: 5.2-10 vs 5.2-1
> qemu-server: 5.0-38 vs 5.0-26
> zfs-initramfs: 0.7.11-pve1~bpo1 vs 0.7.8-pve1~bpo9
> zfsutils-linux: 0.7.11-pve1~bpo1 vs 0.7.8-pve1~bpo9
>
> libpve-storage-perl: 5.0-23 (both)
> pve-container: 2.0-23 (both)
> pve-kernel-4.15: 5.2-1 (both)
> pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.8-3 (both)
> pve-qemu-kvm: 2.11.1-5 (both)
>
> All above packages are kept back by apt on both with the exception of
> libpve-access-control which is only kept back on the second, more
> outdated server.
>
> The remaining 620+ installed packages look identical.
>
> Aptitude was not installed so I haven't run any checks with it.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Where do these discrepancies come from?
> 2. Is it safe to force upgrade them for the sake of keeping Proxmox
> nodes in sync? What's the best way to do it?
>
> Regards,
> Adam
>
>
>
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