From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 10:05:36 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Small updates. X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/50917951a4053ff1c3152147da210e4675d14423 Small updates. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2018-07-08-apt-upgrade-full-disk.txt b/blog/data/2018-07-08-apt-upgrade-full-disk.txt index 9eb76a5083..c73369f3bf 100644 --- a/blog/data/2018-07-08-apt-upgrade-full-disk.txt +++ b/blog/data/2018-07-08-apt-upgrade-full-disk.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Title: Debian APT upgrade without enough free space on the disk... Tags: english, debian -Date: 2018-07-08 12:00 +Date: 2018-07-08 12:10

Quite regularly, I let my Debian Sid/Unstable chroot stay untouch for a while, and when I need to update it there is not enough free @@ -51,9 +51,11 @@ downloaded packages using dpkg. The idea is to upgrade packages without changing the APT mark for the package (ie the one recording of the package was manually requested or pulled in as a dependency). To use it, simply run it as root from the command line. If it fail, try -'apt install -f' to clean up the mess and run the script again.

+'apt install -f' to clean up the mess and run the script again. This +might happen if the new packages conflict with one of the old +packages. dpkg is unable to remove, while apt can do this.

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It take one option, a package to ingore in the list of packages to +

It take one option, a package to ignore in the list of packages to upgrade. The option to ignore a package is there to be able to skip the packages that are simply too large to unpack. Today this was 'ghc', but I have run into other large packages causing similar