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Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete" packages ?

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Thomas Schmitt wrote:
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> Thanks for this description of a real world procedure.
> Now i know at least that i am not the only one who cares about the
> post-upgrade steps in the manual. I already began to think that everybody
> lets the surplus packages rot in the dark.

  i have been running the same general routine for
years.  every morning i boot up, run the updates
for apt (but i use apt-get out of habit) and then
do the updates that make sense.  since i am running
testing i may delay some updates for a period of
time until issues look to be resolved.

  if there are packages that are no longer needed
i will usually leave them in place until after i've
made sure i don't need them any more (here or there
i have had to downgrade to fix an issue so i don't
want to have to recreate a configuration file) before
i purge them from my system, but it may only be a
few days where i don't have the purged.  i also used
to run orphaner, but i've not used that in quite a
long time and it doesn't even appear in the archive
any more.

  after upgrading i reboot.  i want to know something
is broken when i have time to fix it instead of 
finding out when i don't have time.  i do keep a 
bootable stable partition though for emergencies and
comparison.

  once in a while i remove any unneeded downloaded
packages from my apt cache so i'm not wasting too
much space on my system, but that's once a month or
so when things seem to be quiet enough that i'm not
at risk of removing a package i might need to
downgrade.


> Have a nice day :)

  :)


> Thomas


  songbird

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After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete" packages ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-05-28 20:40 +0200
  Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete"  packages ? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-28 21:10 +0200
    Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete"  packages ? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2024-05-29 04:30 +0200
    Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete" packages ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-05-29 18:30 +0200
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      Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete"  packages ? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-05-29 19:20 +0200
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                Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete"  packages ? Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> - 2024-06-01 01:20 +0200
                Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete" packages ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-06-01 10:10 +0200
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