ddurdle Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 I've been using debian on all my systems for a long time. On my x86 and x64 systems, debian_version always gets updated after dist-upgrades and upgrades. It has never been the case for my embedded boards running armbian jessie. I tried to research into what actually does the trigger, but I can't find any details. When I log in, my splashscreen confirms there are no new updates (I updated this morning). It's still showing 8.0 in /etc/debian_version. I expect to see /etc/debian_version reflect 8.4 Any ideas? sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: icedtea-netx-common libavcodec57 libavdevice57 libavfilter6 libavformat57 libavresample3 libavutil55 libchromaprint1 libdirac-encoder0 libflite1 libgme0 libmodplug1 libopencv-core2.3 libopencv-imgproc2.3 libopenjp2-7 libopenjpeg2 libpgm-5.1-0 libpostproc52 libpostproc54 librtmp0 librubberband2 libshine3 libsnappy1 libsodium13 libsoxr0 libssh-gcrypt-4 libswresample2 libswscale4 libsystemd-login0 libunique-1.0-0 libva-drm1 libva-x11-1 libva1 libx264-123 libx265-87 libzmq3 ssl-cert Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: icedtea-netx-common libavcodec57 libavdevice57 libavfilter6 libavformat57 libavresample3 libavutil55 libchromaprint1 libdirac-encoder0 libflite1 libgme0 libmodplug1 libopencv-core2.3 libopencv-imgproc2.3 libopenjp2-7 libopenjpeg2 libpgm-5.1-0 libpostproc52 libpostproc54 librtmp0 librubberband2 libshine3 libsnappy1 libsodium13 libsoxr0 libssh-gcrypt-4 libswresample2 libswscale4 libsystemd-login0 libunique-1.0-0 libva-drm1 libva-x11-1 libva1 libx264-123 libx265-87 libzmq3 ssl-cert Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. cat /etc/debian_version 8.0 cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.debian.net/debianjessie main contrib non-free deb http://http.debian.net/debianjessie-updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.orgjessie/updates main contrib non-free deb http://www.deb-multimedia.orgjessie main non-free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Temar Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 $ dpkg -S /etc/debian_version base-files: /etc/debian_version Looks like debian_version gets updated when the package "base-files" is updated. $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' '*' | grep debian_version /etc/debian_version 901275afdd9278ae23c429033a63d04e $ md5sum /etc/debian_version 901275afdd9278ae23c429033a63d04e /etc/debian_version At least on my system no other script touched that file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddurdle Posted January 23, 2017 Author Share Posted January 23, 2017 $ dpkg -S /etc/debian_version base-files: /etc/debian_version Looks like debian_version gets updated when the package "base-files" is updated. $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' '*' | grep debian_version /etc/debian_version 901275afdd9278ae23c429033a63d04e $ md5sum /etc/debian_version 901275afdd9278ae23c429033a63d04e /etc/debian_version At least on my system no other script touched that file. Thank you, this post was very helpful. I did a apt-cache show base-files and it showed there were two versions with the on for 8 taking precedence over 8+deb8u7. So I ran apt-get install base-files=8+deb8u7 I'll check through and see what other packages this is happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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