From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from firstgate.proxmox.com (firstgate.proxmox.com [IPv6:2a01:7e0:0:424::9]) by lore.proxmox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DFBCB1FF13C for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:58:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from firstgate.proxmox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by firstgate.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id DB771C704; Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:58:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Nicolas Frey To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com Subject: [PATCH pve-docs 2/2] software updates: add warning about using apt upgrade Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:58:47 +0200 Message-ID: <20260611135847.276100-3-n.frey@proxmox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 In-Reply-To: <20260611135847.276100-1-n.frey@proxmox.com> References: <20260611135847.276100-1-n.frey@proxmox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SPAM-LEVEL: Spam detection results: 0 AWL -0.138 Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address BAYES_00 -1.9 Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% DMARC_MISSING 0.1 Missing DMARC policy KAM_DMARC_STATUS 0.01 Test Rule for DKIM or SPF Failure with Strict Alignment KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY 1 Sending domain does not have any anti-forgery methods RDNS_NONE 0.793 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: 23X7VDSKDFOD53ZWO7MNGHAJD7N53I7J X-Message-ID-Hash: 23X7VDSKDFOD53ZWO7MNGHAJD7N53I7J 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 VE 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. See commit 2eaf8334 for further reference. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Frey --- system-software-updates.adoc | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/system-software-updates.adoc b/system-software-updates.adoc index 32afac1..6b30aff 100644 --- a/system-software-updates.adoc +++ b/system-software-updates.adoc @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ updates use the web-based GUI or the following CLI commands: # apt full-upgrade ---- +WARNING: As {PVE} 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. + For occasionally upgrading Ceph to its succeeding major release, see xref:sysadmin_package_repositories_ceph[Ceph Repositories]. -- 2.47.3