Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:33:35PM -0400, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
I usually keep current with the Debian archive using apt-get. Sometimes,
however, I install programs using dselect.
After upgrading to the latest Debian archive using apt-get update/upgrade,
I got the following message while running dselect:
The following packages will be upgraded:
openssh-client openssh-server
It happened on two different similarly configured machines.
I'm pretty sure this has never happened to me before. I have always
thought that upgrading using either apt-get or dselect (using the apt
method) were equivalent, at least with respect to staying current with
the archive.
Am I missing something major? Thanks for any illumination.
The latest version of openssh-server depends on openssh-blacklist due
to the security problems with openssl that came up recently. If you
only use "apt-get upgrade", openssh-server won't get upgraded because
"upgrade" refuses to install new packages. Did openssh-blacklist get
installed too when you used dselect?
Yes. I had missed the warning about the kept back packages. Thanks.
I have repeated the upgrade with another machine to confirm this explanation:
apt-get update/upgrade outputs in part:
The following packages have been kept back:
openssh-client openssh-server
The following packages will be upgraded:
libssl0.9.8 linux-source-2.6.18 openssl rdesktop ssh
dselect outputs in part:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
openssh-blacklist
The following packages will be upgraded:
openssh-client openssh-server
2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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