On Sunday 06 September 2015 20:45:02 Joe wrote: > On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:54:13 +0300 > > David Baron <d_ba...@012.net.il> wrote: > > On Sunday 06 September 2015 09:32:08 David Christensen wrote: > > > On 09/06/2015 02:55 AM, David Baron wrote: > > > > Now that the g++ business is largely behind us, want to start > > > > upgrading. Problem is that with that darned partitioning by the > > > > Debian installation, there is not enough room on /var to > > > > accomplish upgrade of such size. > > > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/08/msg01056.html > > > > > > > > > David > > > > Thanks, but I know how to, do not want to, reinstall. Should not have > > to do so. > > > > Thinking of moving the /var/tmp KDE stuff elsewhere and symlinking. > > This takes up a large plurality, even majority of /var, not needed > > before login and home is mounted. What about that? > > How close are you? If you upgrade, then clear the package cache, you > minimise the amount of work a dist-upgrade needs to do and maximise the > available space. If that isn't enough, you might manage to upgrade > groups of packages rather than all in one go. If you have a GUI, you > might find synaptic easier for that kind of work than aptitude or > apt-get. > > You don't mention which distribution, but unstable certainly isn't in a > position to fully dist-upgrade at the moment, so I wouldn't have > thought that testing is either. After the g++ earthquake, we still have > the KDE tsunami to deal with. Libreoffice also cannot be upgraded, but > it has recently been in that state twice and recovered fairly quickly, > so it probably isn't a problem. But certainly in unstable, quite a few > packages which were stuck for a few weeks have now upgraded, and I > shifted about fifty this evening.
I do an apt-get clear routinely. Just does not get me enough. Yes, unstable. Problem is, longer I wait, the larger the upgrade gets. I am not doing dist- upgrade but so much of the stuff is interrelated that very few smaller groups of packages present themselves. I have about 500 meg available, just does not quite cut it. Libreoffice and Texlive are two large groups. One idea might be to sacrifice them (I do not think I ever used the Tex), upgrade, and then reinstall the libreoffice which should then reinstall without a zillion other things. Maybe safer than playing with /var/tmp which is heavily subscribed by our favorite systemd. A couple of other large but independent packages can also be not upgraded, such as the html kde docs and such.