Debian 9.4

[dolphin_oracle]

Debian is apparently updating this morning.

[Jerry3904]

Installed 49 packages and rebooted the clean 17.1 install on my testing machine, see nothing that looks suspicious so far.

[timkb4cq]

The updates weren't showing here until I did an apt-get clean. Apt-get update had been finishing without errors but not retrieving any new debian package lists, just the MX ones. After the apt-get clean I got 57 updates.

[dolphin_oracle]

The updates weren't showing here until I did an apt-get clean. Apt-get update had been finishing without errors but not retrieving any new debian package lists, just the MX ones. After the apt-get clean I got 57 updates.

that's odd...came down fine for me with the usual updater.

[chrispop99]

Wasn't seeing them here either from the nl repo; changed temporarily to a US one, and have them.

Chris

[Jerry3904]

The updates weren't showing here until I did an apt-get clean. Apt-get update had been finishing without errors but not retrieving any new debian package lists, just the MX ones. After the apt-get clean I got 57 updates.

On both my machines in sig: Updater > Check for Updates produced nothing. B/c I knew they were available, used Synaptic to get them. Repo set to Utah.

Hope that disappears as servers populate across the globe.

[dolphin_oracle]

mirrors still are in flux I think. when I updated the 17.1 builds this morning, the 32 bit had updates, but the 64 bit did not. Updating the 64 bit now.

[Jerry3904]

Yeah, worth waiting until things settle down.

I don't get why Synaptic worked and Updater did not. Maybe Updater needs Tim's command in there somewhere.

[richb]

After announced it took awhile for updater to work. Even after a check for updates a couple of times. But I did not have to do anything else but wait.

[kmathern]

Yeah, worth waiting until things settle down.

I don't get why Synaptic worked and Updater did not. Maybe Updater needs Tim's command in there somewhere.

With the auto-update disabled in MX Updater, it looks to me like the default unattended-ugrades setting, Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern:: "origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename},label=Debian-Security";, in the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades file is causing the strange behaviour with apt-get update and causing the Debian 9.4 upgrade to not happen.

When I do a `apt-get update` with that setting enabled I get what's shown below where it just downloads the Release and InRelease files:

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$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease
Ign:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease                                                                           
Hit:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch Release                                                                                       
Hit:4 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease                                                                                  
Hit:5 http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch stretch InRelease                                                                             
Hit:6 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo stretch InRelease                                           
Reading package lists... Done

If disable that setting I get a normal update:

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$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease
Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease [91.0 kB]            
Ign:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease                                     
Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch Release [118 kB]                              
Get:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch Release.gpg [2,434 B]                                                                         
Hit:6 http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch stretch InRelease                                                                  
Hit:7 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo stretch InRelease                        
Get:8 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages [7,122 kB]
Get:9 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages [7,101 kB]                                                                 
Get:10 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main Translation-en [5,394 kB]                                                               
Get:11 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/contrib amd64 Packages [50.9 kB]                                                             
Get:12 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/contrib i386 Packages [47.9 kB]                                                              
Get:13 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/non-free i386 Packages [68.9 kB]                                                             
Get:14 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/non-free amd64 Packages [78.0 kB]                                                            
Get:15 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/non-free Translation-en [80.1 kB]                                                            
Fetched 20.2 MB in 22s (906 kB/s)                                                                                                           
Reading package lists... Done

My plan though has been to not alter anything in the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades file that the unattended-upgrades package installs, because if I modified it I thought it might cause a problem with auto-updates of the unattended-upgrades package. Before I change anything I would like to wait a while (a day or two) and see if the problem resolves itself on it's own.

edit: It seems to fix itself on it's own with a second 'apt-get update'. If a user doesn't manually run a `apt-get update` today, the second update will happen automatically tommorow and the Debian 9.4 updates should show up then.