Hi Samuel, all On 17-03-2021 19:40, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Paul Gevers, le mer. 17 mars 2021 19:38:16 +0100, a ecrit: >>> "apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs" >> >> Looking into history, I see we did this because of >> https://bugs.debian.org/931637. I guess your suggestion is a better >> alternative? > > It would probably fill both the objective of upgrading without new > packages, and letting users have a progression bar, yes.
Sanity check, does the attached patch do what you mean? (I put Samuel as the author, to give the credits). Paul
From baef5aa4289ee025751391601200939c6e7482df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:59:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] en/upgrading.dbk: also use apt (but with options) during
minimal upgrade
Closes: #977477
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en/upgrading.dbk | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/en/upgrading.dbk b/en/upgrading.dbk
index 4fab1c40..da12d99d 100644
--- a/en/upgrading.dbk
+++ b/en/upgrading.dbk
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
To do this, first run:
</para>
<screen>
-# apt-get upgrade
+# apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
</screen>
<para>
This has the effect of upgrading those packages which can be upgraded without
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