Bug#1068823: Stepwise Debian upgrade to enable systems with little free storage space to upgrade without breaks due to "No space left on device"
On Thu, 2024-04-11 at 16:46 +0000, mYnDstrEAm wrote:
>
> For example, I think a good approach to this would be something like
> this (if the user is low on root partition disk space):
> 1. asking for *at least* 400MB to be available
> 2. if a parameter for stepwise is set or it detected low free disk
> space:
> 3. downloading the first 300 MB or so of packages
> 4. installing these
> 5. deleting the cached packages from /var/cache/apt/archives/
> 6. downloading the next batch up to the storage limit set at start
> 7. and so on (without exiting in-between)
>
quick and dirty and not tested:
while apt -s upgrade | grep '^Inst' | head -1 | awk '{print $2}' |
xargs apt install; do apt clean; done
Use head -10 or whatever fits for more/less packages.
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