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: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- /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. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org