Re: Reducing apt's memory footprint (on small boxes)
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 3:04 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> And devices with limited storage. Two days ago I had to install Debian
> 10 on a fresh SDcard and swap-in the card on an IoT gadget. The dist
> upgrade used too much space and the existing SDcard ran out of space
> when unpacking/installing a Perl package.
The unattended-upgrades package has a "minimal steps" mode that might
be helpful for devices with limited disk space. Unfortunately apt
itself doesn't yet support this, but you could manually upgrade one
package at a time instead.
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