hamm->slink upgrade report
I just upgraded a notebook from hamm to slink. I have two major issues:
1) The system grew by about 26% (see below). I came very close to
running entirely out of disk space. Some of this was new packages
that apt-get chose to install, such as dependencies of the revised
xbase. However, the real problem was that while apt-get warned of
42.2M of growth, the actual growth was at least 53M. I have not found
the extra 10M - maybe apt-get does not account for elisp files that
are compiled in postinst? OTOH, wouldn't emacs 20.2-6 have had
about the same volume of compiled files? The installations were
from a local mirror mounted by NFS, so apt-get did not add anything
to its archives, and "apt-get clean" did not recover any disk space.
2) Emacs quit working. emacs20 was installed, but there was no valid
/usr/bin/emacs file. I removed the package with dpkg, and noticed a
warning that the alternatives were not set for automatic handling. I
fixed that, reinstalled the package, and all was okay. Not sure what
happened there.
I used script to log the upgrade, so if you have specific questions, I
may be able to dig out the answers. (The log was to a separate FAT
partition, so it did not contribute to the above growth.)
- Jim Van Zandt
Script started on Sat Feb 20 18:00:33 1999
voyager:/home/jrv/msg# apt-get dist-upgrade
...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpng2 twm xsm xlib6 librpm1 kbd-data xproxy xfree86-common
libstdc++2.9-dev xlib6g-dev xterm slang1 xbase-clients libjpeg62 rstartd
cracklib2 xserver-common libtiff3g newt0.25 nmh rstart xdm libjpegg6a
libident xmh xfs
...
Need to get 12.1M/55.6M of archives. After unpacking 42.2M will be used.
...
after cleaning out system and installing the first few packages:
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda3 289829 224891 49970 82% /
after dist-upgrade and configuring:
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda3 289829 279355 0 100% /
------
growth: actual 54464
advertised 43213
------
unexpected 11251
used before 224891
/usr/local + /home -19074
------
system 205817
54464/205817=.26 ---> 26% growth!
unwanted new packages: xdm xlib6g-dev rstart xmh xfs
200+3237+48+159+361=4005
Part of this may be in apt's cache:
# ls -l /var/cache/apt/
total 1181
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jun 30 1998 archives
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Feb 21 11:01 lock
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 619066 Feb 21 11:01 pkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 599766 Feb 20 18:05 srcpkgcache.bin
...but not the archives:
# du -s /var/cache/apt/archives/
2 /var/cache/apt/archives
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