Handling of core plugins is a pain when using APT repositories to update #31470
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Elasticsearch version (
bin/elasticsearch --version
): 5.6.10Plugins installed: analysis-icu, ingest-attachment
JVM version (
java -version
):OS version: Linux 4.4.0-128-generic #154-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 25 14:15:18 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior:
When upgrading ES patch releases with APT, core plugins are a pain, because each version is built only for a single release of ES and so ES will fail to start with the new version. And the only way to fix this today is to remove all plugins and install them from scratch again.
I see 3 possible ways to improve this situation (there might be others):
Steps to reproduce:
ES will fail to start in my case.
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