Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> writes: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 05:19:06PM -0400, Daniel wrote: >> Holger Wansing wrote: >> > The debian-installer supports similar use case via the "separate >> > partition for /home" approach. >> to reinstall Debian on top of itself without overwriting the home partition. > > Yes, that is what Holger is telling. I think Daniel is requesting an option that does something like this: find /install-target -maxdepth 1 | grep -v 'home\|lost+found' | xargs rm -rf Maybe this way isn't robust enough, but active mounts shouldn't have their mount points removed, because rm: cannot remove '/install-target/foo': Device or resource busy BTW, Daniel, you can decruft your system with "apt purge --autoremove foo", which also deletes config in /etc and will notify you if any files remain in /var. One of the greatest strengths of Debian is that unlike other operating systems, smooth upgrades between stable versions are taken seriously...gravely seriously...so one never needs to reinstall. The only things that I've seen that have ever required action are packages that needed manual configuration updates in /etc (equally solvable by apt purge), and obsolete/broken configuration in /home/user (not solved if this feature request is implemented). What problem is this feature request intended to solve? FrankenDebian? https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian Cheers, Nicholas P.S. apt install installation-birthday :-)
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