tomas 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.
Anything more to add to the 'maintain' function (a1), to improve safety and dig in from the basis of a sound state? Now it looks like this: a1 () { sudo apt-get -qq check sudo apt-get -qq update sudo apt-get -qq autoremove sudo aptitude -q=99 autoclean apt -a list --upgradable } a2 () { a1 sudo apt-get -qq upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade } > Having a new kernel install failing because -ENOSPC has > bitten some of us around here at least once :-) ENOSPC = error as no space (on the drive). It only happened to me once as a youth, when I tried to insert bills into my wallet ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal