raspbx-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

[James]

I thought I'd seen this somewhere on the forum before, but I was unable to find any discussion on this.

I'm running raspbx-10-10-2017.zip with upgrades since.

I get different results if I use raspbx-upgrade versus apt-get update/upgrade:

# raspbx-upgrade 
RasPBX upgrade tool
Run "raspbx-upgrade --help" for additional options
Base version: 03-10-2017
Installed upgrade:        25
Local upgrade available:  25
Online upgrade available: 25
Checking repositories for updated packages...
Hit:1 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch InRelease
Hit:2 http://repo.raspbx.org/apt/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:4 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian jessie InRelease                       
Reading package lists... Done                                                            
Your system is up to date.

versus:

# apt-get dist-upgrade 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apt apt-transport-https apt-utils asterisk13 base-files bind9-host bluez bluez-firmware curl dbus dhcpcd5 dirmngr
  dns-root-data dnsmasq dnsmasq-base fig2dev gnupg gnupg-agent gpgv icu-devtools iproute2 libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0
  libbind9-140 libbluetooth3 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libdb5.3 libdbus-1-3 libdns-export162 libdns162 libgnutls30
  libgssapi-krb5-2 libicu-dev libicu57 libisc-export160 libisc160 libisccc140 libisccfg140 libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3
  libkrb5support0 libldap-2.4-2 libldap-common liblwres141 libncurses5 libncursesw5 libpq5 libpython2.7
  libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libraspberrypi-bin libraspberrypi-dev libraspberrypi-doc libraspberrypi0
  libsqlite3-0 libssl1.0.0 libssl1.0.2 libssl1.1 libtinfo5 libwbclient0 linux-libc-dev ncurses-base ncurses-bin
  ncurses-term openssh-client openssh-server openssh-sftp-server openssl python-samba python2.7 python2.7-minimal
  raspberrypi-bootloader raspberrypi-kernel raspberrypi-sys-mods raspi-config rsync samba samba-common samba-common-bin
  samba-dsdb-modules samba-libs samba-vfs-modules sensible-utils sqlite3 ssh transfig tzdata vim-common vim-tiny wget
  wpasupplicant xkb-data xxd
94 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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In https://sourceforge.net/p/raspbx/discussion/general/thread/470e6ef6/#a5aa it's mentioned that "The raspbx-upgrade command also calls it, but installs a few additional patches on top from time to time." "it" in this case being "apt-get dist-upgrade".

Can someone chime in as to the discrepancy?

Is there an added advantage to running "apt-get upgrade"? It appears to update a good many things (in my case), including some that could impact security like ssh and the kernel.

[Gernot]

You are right, this is in fact a bug in raspbx-upgrade. When I wrote this script initially I wanted it to not update all the Raspbian packages every time it is being called, because most of the updates are not crtitical anyway and it only puts unecessary IO load on the SD card. So I decided it should only update all the packages whenever there is a new Asterisk version available. But with Rasbian Jessie the behavior already changed to update every time when it is being called.
Unfortunately it is not perfectly compatible with Rasbian Stretch anymore, it should have updated in your case anyway because a new version of the package asterisk13 is available (see your post above).
I will fix this bug asap and upload a new version. Thanks a lot for reporting this. I'll post again here when the new version is out.

[Gernot]

The bugfix is uploaded, from now on raspbx-upgrade always calls apt-get dist-upgrade on each run. The script updates itself by calling raspbx-upgrade
Thanks again for reporting this bug.