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On Sun, 14 May 2017 11:49:14 -0400 Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote: > This concern that you characterize as a "myth" is something I read in > various apt package distro mailing lists on a somewhat regular basis. > I also have one buddy from my LUG whose machine was borked immediately > after doing a apt get dist upgrade. Hallo Steve, I suppose you are talking about trans-release dist-upgrades and not the scarce but sometimes important upgrades that introduce new dependencies within the lifetime of the installed release. I run apt-get dist-upgrade on a regular basis (i.e. usually when my upgrade script reports "not upgraded" packages) and can't remember to have run into any problems. To not accidentally upgrade to a new release, I "pin" my systems by using the release's codename (e.g. "jessie") in the sources.list instead of "stable" or "testing". Regarding the "cleanup" before upgrading to a new release (mentioned in this thread), I use to do two things immediately after the initial minimal install, which keep my systems slim and sleek and, by the way, deprecate this additional step when I upgrade to a new release: 1) edit apt.conf to the following florian@nulldevice:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02norecommend APT::Install-Recommends "0"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant "1"; APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "1"; 2) install and run debfoster Then I repeat running debfoster carefully after every installation of a meta-package, starting with the removal of the meta-package itself. libre Grüße, Florian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJZGIipAAoJEO5FSXn+RB/WJH4P/A+p08P2gv8greEZlWL28n9+ GmotAfCH8f5Ay6YIH25EL7oO4U1MdPuGWwLxbZpOrSjUM+1CRTXgwDGZ3M1yi5Sh vteo4/NG2rGRqOshBnrXEslASvx1bDkrjKVR7INkUhYG2hLtd4mOVcrQvJ2R7PuS Cz56nO/mCdqixgDiPmO4BuyFjHOyB7Kt9Ah4EDLo3miDbDiXe87ZNY4wWrb4vgGs dnMEI2MEri8xHfVGMfZrwwpkbNhQM8huM+Z9iGOu6WM7qGijXtpzn4g49aprhKKm fbGY9cXabFQX9IfX2zkgseH3uIxGrgENyghGZQcKrzIYJ+335P8JVzdqWLi/bso1 USGLpciiaM39FP524oRGrjUU9ITv/SHSuItq19mEgoFUyaZhJgtbJFZNt+eHyMj+ eN2GI9UkZyhgZCOubm2bf60Xo7KXtek3td3cCm/D3nNvomrslSB/6BC8tI/GR5md AX4fc5YIOcoIm+c7kRX0A9xoKBEIi9WGuT+EN/iQX5PiMtmuw9cnQVQBI5Q/Ab6Z v7neNaFDaVfoaHl9emof/FraJlOD9lz8PH2jURO5fPdKGBoq49EqhR2Wknzj3MUU Jjc+Gpg/f8uqY36VYFQ58mDvtcUklRTpKAsDZhmTP7JXzH/CP1ubfnO68KKmnn3a aaEKXYIH1LU88cFgjmJq =Bzph -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
