Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help
On Tue 25 Jul 2017 at 16:16:44 (+0200), Dejan Jocic wrote:
> On 25-07-17, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Is there any way to permanently neuter apt-get autoremove, so that even
> > if something invokes it against my will, it will *never* remove anything?
> >
> > And more, is there a way to get apt and apt-get to *stop* prompting me
> > to run it, and *stop* spamming me with a list of packages that it would
> > like me to remove? (Maybe that's the same as the first question, maybe
> > not.)
> >
> > My strategy so far has been "ignore the spam, and never willingly run
> > autoremove". This mostly works, but I recently learned that tasksel
> > will apparently run an autoremove, without warning, whether I want it
> > to or not (<http://bugs.debian.org/868892>).
> >
> > If autoremove will also remove *kernels*, which this thread seems to
> > indicate is the case, then my concerns just went up another notch.
> >
> > I suppose one could manually mark each and every single installed
> > package as "manually installed", but you'd have to remember to repeat
> > this periodically, and it seems clumsy and inelegant compared to some
> > sort of master switch that can just tell autoremove to go die in a fire.
> >
>
> Your fear from autoremove is silly. It
Please note that "it" is "they", viz: apt and apt-get, …
> will not remove anything you
> really need and, if you stick to default settings,
… and that they have different defaults. What's more, apt's behaviour
may change between versions, so unqualified statements like this
should really be confirmed before being relied on.
> will keep all
> packages it replaced in /var/cache/apt/archives, as far as I know. And
> if you have some package that you really, really want to keep, you can
> always pin it, or put it on hold with apt-mark. It is not spam, it is
> keeping your system clean.
Cheers,
David.
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