Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages
On 9/24/16, rhkramer@gmail.com <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, September 24, 2016 09:26:36 AM Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
>> Good morning! Just a heads up that upgrading the following two
>> packages attempts to remove 141 unrelated packages in Sid/Unstable
>> this morning:
>
>> Just sharing because I was in a hurry and almost let it happen. I
>> don't want anyone else to accidentally do the same. For newcomers,
>> *always* protect yourself by making sure you backup your current state
>> before upgrading, specifically for days like today.
>
> For my own education, I'm not sure what you mean by "backup your current
> state
> before upgrading"--does that mean a full backup of your system, or is there
> a
> way to somehow save the current "state" of the package list on your system
> so
> that you can easily request those packages be restored if something goes
> wrong?
I don't always express myself in the best of ways. It just means get
into the very regular habit of backing up *EVERYTHING* in such a way
that, should things ever fail (AND THEY DO), five minutes and a new
hard drive later (for example), you're already back in action.
I write that regularly because both my cognitive [disability] and
financial situation are such that backups didn't/don't occur as they
should. Don't to do what I do. Protect yourself as best you can by
backing up everything that's important very regularly.
How to do so is a personal *_CHOICE_* each user makes. I use rsync but
have seen others have reasonable objections as to why they don't and
why they use other programs successfully. Searching the Debian-User
email archives is one route to go to see what others prefer.
On searching the email archives, there are a couple of us who have
experienced a glitch where we don't get good results by searching
directly through the Debian website. My favored alternative is to
search Debian's archives via a search engine. I enter pertinent
keywords, e.g. "backup", then additionally something like
"lists.debian.org" or "debian-user" into that search engine's query.
Depending on what I need, I'll alternatively type in "wiki.debian.org"
instead.
Cindy :)
--
Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
* runs with duct tape *
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