Bug#656099: apt: upgrade with space limits: split into coherent sets of packages
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.10.3+squeeze1
Severity: wishlist
There are cases where apt-get upgrade would draw in >1,000 megabytes.
However, this would exceed free disk space. In such cases, I try to
apt-get install big packages like openoffice or kde by just copy and
pasting lines from upgradable packages according to apt-get upgrade.
I hope this is understandable so far. It is quite dreary to find
the right packages to get a reasonable amount of packages in,
step by step. Much nicer was an option like: --regard-disk-limit
that tries to draw in only parts of upgradable files in a session,
of course, some coherent set of packages with mutual dependency.
This way, auto-installed packages stay tagged this way as
opposed to my current dirty workaround.
Maybe this wish could be linked to a general feature: space
management (suggesting apt-get clean etc. on full hard disks).
Cheers
Happy new year
Ralf
-- Package-specific info:
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-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental main non-free contrib
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian
a
ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP
rep
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared
lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-10 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
apt recommends no packages.
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