On 6/24/23 02:53, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 10:57:55PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote:On 2023-06-23 21:59, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 05:29:22PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: [...]I'd much rather err on the side of extreme caution. If something goes bump, I'm screwed.To be fair, autoremove can improve safety: when it removes old kernel versions filling up your boot partition.Yes. My comment was about dist-upgrade, not autoremove.Point taken. I wouldn't run this one automatically. It can and will remove packages from time to time, so you better know what happened :-) Cheers
I run my update script like this: sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -yThat way I always have the next older version waiting to be restored if something "goes bump'. But I've not had to resort to that in quite a spell.
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