* [PATCH proxmox-backup 1/1] faq: add warning about using apt upgrade
@ 2026-07-09 14:25 Nicolas Frey
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From: Nicolas Frey @ 2026-07-09 14:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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 <n.frey@proxmox.com>
---
Notes:
A similar patch that adds this warning was recently applied to PVE,
see commit 86bddb2e3d39 in `pve-docs` for more context
docs/faq.rst | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst
index 4ae4573c5..e9ba32609 100644
--- a/docs/faq.rst
+++ b/docs/faq.rst
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ through the CLI with:
apt update
apt full-upgrade
+.. warning:: As Proxmox Backup Server 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 you correctly setup the
:ref:`package repositories <sysadmin_package_repositories>` and only
continue with the actual upgrade if `apt update` did not hit any error.
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2.47.3
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