Cumulus and Debian updates

Infrastructure & Networking Cumulus Linux System Configuration & Management
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Hi

I noticed Cumulus ignores newer Debian packages that are available. Is there a way to change this?

I’m guessing it does some kind of pinning / weighting to prefer packages from the cumulus repo.

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Hi ,

Please review
https://docs.nvidia.com/networking-ethernet-software/cumulus-linux-50/Installation-Management/Adding-and-Updating-Packages/#add-packages-from-another-repository

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Hi, thanks - I had a look at that link.

Seems pretty easy to add packages from the main Debian repo - that part works.

I’m wondering how I upgrade packages which are in the Cumulus repo and in the Debian one. For example openssl recently had a security update.

The Cumulus switch can show me the newer package available in Debian, but it does not want to install it. I think Cumulus does some special magic to keep packages stable which are in the Cumulus repo? Is there a way to force an upgrade in some cases?