Re: /usr-move: Do we support upgrades without apt?
On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 01:22:48PM +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
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>Perhaps release-notes should suggest to run dpkg --verify after a
>dist-upgrade anyway - i assume it doesnt hurt to do so?
That's a really good suggestion, yes! I don't know why nobody hasn't
thought of this before. :-)
>Happy to suggest and edit text for release notes: i would want to know:
>
>- how do i know if the system is fine?
>
> i was assuming that it would output nothing if everything is fine,
> but that seems to be far from the case. I get huge amounts of output
> that is very hard to interpret, i assume it's showing a 'c' for every
> single changed conffile, and 'missing' where i deleted conffiles.
> But why are some lines contain question marks? we would need a lot
> of explanation here to make this useful for users (unfortunately, the
> dpkg man page is very confusing about this option, and doesnt have
> any of this, as far as i can understand)
>
>- if something went wrong:
> a) how do i know? would there be an obvious error message? do i need to check the exit status?
> b) what would i do?: reinstall some packages? reinstall the whole system?
>
>(maybe this should be in a bug against release-notes)
Maybe a wrapper script to just report likely problems would be a good
plan.
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