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From: "Lukas Wagner" <l.wagner@proxmox.com>
To: "Nicolas Frey" <n.frey@proxmox.com>, <pdm-devel@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: applied: [PATCH proxmox-datacenter-manager 1/1] faq: add warning about using apt upgrade
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:57:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DJUP1YVYHQWV.IJ6RCBNR41JC@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260709142623.363347-1-n.frey@proxmox.com>

On Thu Jul 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM CEST, Nicolas Frey wrote:
> 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 d4ba9b50..3d8ecd3f 100644
> --- a/docs/faq.rst
> +++ b/docs/faq.rst
> @@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ with:
>    apt update
>    apt full-upgrade
>  
> +.. warning:: As Proxmox Datacenter Manager 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.

Applied, thanks!




      reply	other threads:[~2026-07-10  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-09 14:26 [PATCH proxmox-datacenter-manager 1/1] faq: add warning about using apt upgrade Nicolas Frey
2026-07-10  6:57 ` Lukas Wagner [this message]

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