From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate001.proxmox.com (gate001.proxmox.com [IPv6:2a0f:8001:1:32::40]) by lore.proxmox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE45A1FF0E0 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:26:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gate001.proxmox.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gate001.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id BEB132145F; Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:26:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Nicolas Frey To: pmg-devel@lists.proxmox.com Subject: [PATCH pmg-docs 1/1] faq: add warning about using apt upgrade Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 16:26:06 +0200 Message-ID: <20260709142606.363114-1-n.frey@proxmox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SPAM-LEVEL: Spam detection results: 1 AWL -0.569 Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address DMARC_MISSING 0.1 Missing DMARC policy KAM_DMARC_STATUS 0.01 Test Rule for DKIM or SPF Failure with Strict Alignment (newer systems) KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY 1 Sending domain does not have any anti-forgery methods RDNS_NONE 1.274 Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS SPF_HELO_NONE 0.001 SPF: HELO does not publish an SPF Record SPF_NONE 0.001 SPF: sender does not publish an SPF Record Message-ID-Hash: 42ZTQ7KOLSAFITEBX3IDXHLKUVKJ42HL X-Message-ID-Hash: 42ZTQ7KOLSAFITEBX3IDXHLKUVKJ42HL X-MailFrom: nfrey@miso.proxmox.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; loop; banned-address; emergency; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.10 Precedence: list List-Id: Proxmox Mail Gateway development discussion List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: as it has increasingly come up in enterprise support and is generally an easy foot gun for people coming from other Debian-based distros. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Frey --- Notes: A similar patch that adds this warning was recently applied to PVE, see commit 86bddb2e3d39 in `pve-docs` for more context pmg-faq.adoc | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/pmg-faq.adoc b/pmg-faq.adoc index 602a9d1..a8a1e73 100644 --- a/pmg-faq.adoc +++ b/pmg-faq.adoc @@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ apt update apt full-upgrade ---- + +WARNING: As {pmg} uses a rolling release model on top of Debian, performing an `apt +upgrade` may result in a partially upgraded or broken package state. This is because +`apt full-upgrade` can also remove existing packages to satisfy dependencies if needed, +while `apt upgrade` cannot. ++ NOTE: Always ensure that you correctly set up the xref:pmg_package_repositories[package repositories], and only continue with the actual upgrade if `apt update` did not hit any errors. -- 2.47.3