From 1241abd704c33caa7cbdd391b5cea2e6aa0e24df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 11:50:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Improve description. --- blog/data/2018-07-08-apt-upgrade-full-disk.txt | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 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 2d0baa23bc..9eb76a5083 100644 --- a/blog/data/2018-07-08-apt-upgrade-full-disk.txt +++ b/blog/data/2018-07-08-apt-upgrade-full-disk.txt @@ -45,9 +45,13 @@ for p in $(apt list --upgradable | ignore "$@" |cut -d/ -f1 | grep -v '^Listing. done

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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.

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The script will extract the list of packages to upgrade, try to +download the packages needed to upgrade one package, install the +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.

It take one option, a package to ingore in the list of packages to upgrade. The option to ignore a package is there to be able to skip -- 2.47.2