I’ve been using unattended upgrades without any problems until now. However, for the second time, I’m encountering an issue where I end up with a summary stating that some packages were not installed or updated. Among other things, it tells me:

Package imagemagick is held back because a related package is held back or due to local apt_preferences(5).

However, when I run sudo apt full-upgrade, everything is up to date and the packages are installed. sudo apt-mark showhold also doesn’t list any packages. So why am I getting the message that packages were held back?

  • MoLoPoLY@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Many thx for the hint with these both log files. I have checked them, but i couldn’t found other processes installing the mentioned packages. There are only 2 manually invoked apt commands, to manually downgrade and later update wget, but that was a test from my own. I personally think that unattended-upgrades has complained about the kept packages, but lastly installed them.

    Im using a 52unattended-upgrades-local file to overwrite the standard file with the following settings:

    Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern {
        "origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename}-updates";
//      "origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename}-proposed-updates";
        "origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename},label=Debian";
        "origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename},label=Debian-Security";
        "origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename}-security,label=Debian-Security";
        "origin=Raspbian,codename=${distro_codename},label=Raspbian";
        "origin=Raspberry Pi Foundation,codename=${distro_codename},label=Raspberry Pi Foundation";
        "site=archive.ntfy.sh";
        "site=download.docker.com,a=trixie";
};

Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist {
};

Unattended-Upgrade::AutoFixInterruptedDpkg "true";

Unattended-Upgrade::MinimalSteps "false";

Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Kernel-Packages "true";

Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-New-Unused-Dependencies "true";

Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true";

Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true";

Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot-WithUsers "true";

Unattended-Upgrade::SyslogEnable "false";

    Maybe i have something missconfigured…