Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

[Geek87]

Le jeudi 28 janvier 2010 à 11:30 +0100, koen.n...@koca.be a écrit :
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:33:53 +0100, Geek87  wrote:
> 
> > Do you have any idea? Is the technique I used bad and dirty?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Geek87
> 
> I don't think it's a good idea. Because if in your example sendmail is
> replaced with postfix. Config files will not be magically filled it for
> the
> new system. Not that the above will happen often. The only thing you
> should automate
> is installing security updates every night, there is a package for this if
> I remember correct. 
> 
> When security is a concern, and it should, configure IPTABLES after
> install before plugging in your system.
> 
> It depends on what you'll be using the system for. 
> I have Debian Samba PDC with DHCP and DNS: I really don't want this to
> update just like that. Everything depends on it.
> 
> If it's your local desktop, it doens't really matter. But then you don't
> have to automate it because you can do it at logon or whatever. 
> 
> Koen Linders
> 
> 

Thank you for the answer. So this is a bad idea for the tasks I agree
with you, I didn't see the things this way. But for the base system
(~prequired, ~pimportant and ~pstandard) do you think it's a bad idea
too? Why would it be bad idea to have the new packages (which now have
one of the 3 priorities above) and old packages (which no longer have
one of the 3 priorities) automatically proposed respectively for install
or removal on updates?

Geek87


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Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

[Geek87]

Hi all!

I'm new on the list so I hope my question is not stupid and I'm asking
it in the good list.

I have Sid installed on my computer and I would like to know how to keep
my base system (~prequired, ~pimportant, ~pstandard) always clean and up
to date automatically: if package A is no longer needed it should be
removed automatically and if package B is new and with one of the 3
priority above it should be installed automatically.

For the autoremove problem I found a solution: I put all ~prequired,
~pimportant, ~pstandard packages in "automatically installed" state and
put "~prequired, ~pimportant, ~pstandard" in the APT::NeverAutoRemove
directive of the apt.conf file. In this case every package that is
repacked with a new priority not in the 3 above will be automatically
removed unless there is a dependence on it.

For the autoinstall problem I didn't face the situation yet but I don't
know how I'll do.

I also would like to have it working similarly for the tasks: for
example if I have a task "Mail server" installed depending on Sendmail
and that the new version of this task now depends on Postfix, I would
like Sendmail to be automatically removed and Postfix to be
automatically installed. The technique above doesn't work for the tasks.

Do you have any idea? Is the technique I used bad and dirty?

Thanks in advance.

Geek87


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