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Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help

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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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Need to upgrade to jessie need help VigneshDhanraj G <vigneshdhanraj.g@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 08:40 +0200
  Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 09:50 +0200
    Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help VigneshDhanraj G <vigneshdhanraj.g@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 09:50 +0200
    Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-07-25 14:00 +0200
      Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 15:00 +0200
        Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 15:30 +0200
          Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 15:40 +0200
            Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 16:00 +0200
              Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 16:10 +0200
              Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-07-25 16:10 +0200
                Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 16:20 +0200
                Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-07-27 17:50 +0200
                Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-07-28 17:50 +0200
                Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-07-28 18:10 +0200
                Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-07-28 18:20 +0200
                Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-07-29 17:30 +0200
                Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-07-25 20:50 +0200
                Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-07-25 21:00 +0200
                Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-07-26 02:40 +0200
  Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2017-07-25 10:30 +0200
  Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 16:10 +0200
    Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-07-25 21:10 +0200
      Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-07-26 01:20 +0200
        Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-07-26 01:30 +0200
          Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-07-26 06:00 +0200
            Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-07-27 18:50 +0200
          Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-07-26 14:30 +0200
            Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-07-26 15:10 +0200
  Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-07-26 02:30 +0200

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