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Unable to upgrade from v2016.3.3 to v2016.11.1 on debian 8.7
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Unable to upgrade from v2016.3.3 to v2016.11.1

This server was a masterless server before. I moved /etc/salt to a backup folder just in case. I uninstalled salt package this way based on http://installion.co.uk/ubuntu/vivid/universe/s/salt-minion/uninstall/index.html

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove salt-minion
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove salt-minion

Before

$ salt-call --versions              
Salt Version:
           Salt: 2016.3.3
 
Dependency Versions:
           cffi: Not Installed
       cherrypy: Not Installed
       dateutil: 2.5.3
          gitdb: Not Installed
      gitpython: Not Installed
          ioflo: Not Installed
         Jinja2: 2.8
        libgit2: Not Installed
        libnacl: Not Installed
       M2Crypto: Not Installed
           Mako: Not Installed
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
 msgpack-python: 0.4.7
   mysql-python: 1.2.3
      pycparser: Not Installed
       pycrypto: 2.6.1
         pygit2: Not Installed
         Python: 2.7.9 (default, Jun 29 2016, 13:08:31)
   python-gnupg: 0.3.8
         PyYAML: 3.11
          PyZMQ: 15.2.0
           RAET: Not Installed
          smmap: Not Installed
        timelib: Not Installed
        Tornado: 4.3
            ZMQ: 4.1.2
 
System Versions:
           dist: debian 8.7 
        machine: x86_64
        release: 3.16.0-4-amd64
         system: Linux
        version: debian 8.7 
$ uname -a
Linux <snip> 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u1 (2016-09-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I tried both from git installation and package manager https://repo.saltstack.com/#debian

$ wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/8/amd64/latest/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
--2017-01-18 22:05:50--  https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/8/amd64/latest/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub
Resolving repo.saltstack.com (repo.saltstack.com)... 198.199.77.106, 2604:a880:400:d0::2:e001
Connecting to repo.saltstack.com (repo.saltstack.com)|198.199.77.106|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1727 (1.7K)
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’

-                             100%[=================================================>]   1.69K  --.-KB/s   in 0s     

2017-01-18 22:05:52 (22.2 MB/s) - written to stdout [1727/1727]

OK
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/saltstack.list
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/8/amd64/latest jessie main
$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://repo.saltstack.com jessie InRelease
Hit http://repo.saltstack.com jessie/main amd64 Packages                                              
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease                                                              
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Sources                                                           
Hit https://deb.nodesource.com jessie InRelease                                     
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages                                                 
Ign http://repo.saltstack.com jessie/main Translation-en_US                                                   
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie InRelease                                                            
Ign http://repo.saltstack.com jessie/main Translation-en                                     
Hit https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main Sources                                        
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en   
Hit https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main amd64 Packages           
Hit http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie-updates InRelease
Hit http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie-backports InRelease
Hit http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie Release.gpg
Get:1 https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main Translation-en_US [162 B]
Hit http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie-updates/main Sources
Hit https://archive.serverdensity.com all InRelease          
Get:2 https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Get:3 http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [6,916 B]
Get:4 http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]
Get:5 http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie-backports/main Sources/DiffIndex [27.8 kB]
Get:6 https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main Translation-en_US [162 B]
Get:7 http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie-backports/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [27.8 kB]
Get:8 https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Hit https://archive.serverdensity.com all/main amd64 Packages        
Get:9 http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie-backports/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [27.8 kB]
Get:10 https://archive.serverdensity.com all/main Translation-en_US [303 B]
Hit http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie Release
Get:11 https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main Translation-en_US [162 B]
Get:12 https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Get:13 https://archive.serverdensity.com all/main Translation-en [303 B]
Hit http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie/main Sources                                       
Hit http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie/main amd64 Packages                                
Get:14 https://archive.serverdensity.com all/main Translation-en_US [303 B]
Hit http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net jessie/main Translation-en                    
Get:15 https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main Translation-en_US [162 B]         
Get:16 https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Get:17 https://archive.serverdensity.com all/main Translation-en [303 B]
Get:18 https://archive.serverdensity.com all/main Translation-en_US [303 B]
Get:19 https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main Translation-en_US [162 B]
Ign https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main Translation-en_US
Get:20 https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Ign https://deb.nodesource.com jessie/main Translation-en
Get:21 https://archive.serverdensity.com all/main Translation-en [303 B]
Get:22 https://archive.serverdensity.com all/main Translation-en_US [303 B]
Get:23 https://archive.serverdensity.com all/main Translation-en [303 B]
Get:24 https://archive.serverdensity.com all/main Translation-en_US [303 B]
Ign https://archive.serverdensity.com all/main Translation-en_US
Get:25 https://archive.serverdensity.com all/main Translation-en [303 B]
Ign https://archive.serverdensity.com all/main Translation-en 
Fetched 93.0 kB in 2s (33.7 kB/s)                             
Reading package lists... Done
$ sudo apt-get install salt-minion
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
salt-minion is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
$ sudo systemctl restart salt-minion
# return code 0, it worked ;)

After

$ salt-call --versions-report
Salt Version:
           Salt: 2016.3.3
 
Dependency Versions:
           cffi: Not Installed
       cherrypy: Not Installed
       dateutil: 2.5.3
          gitdb: Not Installed
      gitpython: Not Installed
          ioflo: Not Installed
         Jinja2: 2.8
        libgit2: Not Installed
        libnacl: Not Installed
       M2Crypto: Not Installed
           Mako: Not Installed
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
 msgpack-python: 0.4.7
   mysql-python: 1.2.3
      pycparser: Not Installed
       pycrypto: 2.6.1
         pygit2: Not Installed
         Python: 2.7.9 (default, Jun 29 2016, 13:08:31)
   python-gnupg: 0.3.8
         PyYAML: 3.11
          PyZMQ: 15.2.0
           RAET: Not Installed
          smmap: Not Installed
        timelib: Not Installed
        Tornado: 4.3
            ZMQ: 4.1.2
 
System Versions:
           dist: debian 8.7 
        machine: x86_64
        release: 3.16.0-4-amd64
         system: Linux
        version: debian 8.7

Still 2016.3.3!

salt-minion binary isn't some weird symlink to somewhere else.

$ which salt-minion
/usr/local/bin/salt-minion
$ ls -la /usr/local/bin/salt-minion | grep salt-minion
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 944 Sep 19 20:44 /usr/local/bin/salt-minion

➜  ~ sudo dpkg-query -l 'salt*'      
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version          Architecture     Description
+++-=======================-================-================-====================================================
ii  salt-common             2016.11.1+ds-1   all              shared libraries that salt requires for all packages
ii  salt-minion             2016.11.1+ds-1   all              client package for salt, the distributed remote exec
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So what finally worked for me was to do it by hand from git and not using package manager nor bootstrap script:

SALT_VERSION=v2016.11.1

git clone git://github.com/saltstack/salt 
cd salt 
git checkout tags/$SALT_VERSION
sudo python setup.py install --force
salt-call --versions-report

🎉

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