HOW TO: Safer upgrades

kwevej · Post by **kwevej** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:08 am

apt install apt-listbugs

apt-listbugs is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian Bug Tracking System and lists them. Especially, it is intended to be invoked before each upgrade/installation by apt in order to check whether the upgrade/installation is safe.

Today, it saved my ***:

Code: Select all

Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
serious bugs of libc6 (2.11.2-7 -> 2.11.2-9) <marked as done in some version>
 #610657 - libc6: Segfault in dynamic loader on new Intel CPUs (with AVX) (Fixed: eglibc/2.11.2-10)
Summary:
 libc6(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...]  n
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