I had an issue with list.sources file. Now that's resolved and I'm wondering how can I make sure that it's safe to apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade the system?
s2:/var# aptitude upgrade
Resolving dependencies...
open: 4669; closed: 6206; defer: 0; conflict: 0 ^C
This was stalling and casued a problem until I fixed the sources.list file. New sources file:
s2:/etc/apt# cat sources.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
apt-get update and upgrade now works and I get this
apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade...
(skip list of packages)
The following packages will be upgraded:
(skip list of packages)
214 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 43 not upgraded.
Need to get 117 MB of archives.
After this operation, 8,295 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
How can I make sure this its safe to proceed?
System info:
s2:/etc/apt# uname -a
Linux ns2 3.2.0-4-powerpc #1 Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u1 ppc GNU/Linux
ns2:/etc/apt# cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 8 \n \l