Bug#1068823: Stepwise Debian upgrade to enable systems with little free storage space to upgrade without breaks due to "No space left on device"

2024-04-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 04:46:03PM +, mYnDstrEAm wrote: > With the two commands above one can already split it up into two steps but > especially the second command still requires a lot of disk space. I am going to assume that your "a lot of disk space" stems from the *.deb files that are

Bug#1068823: Stepwise Debian upgrade to enable systems with little free storage space to upgrade without breaks due to "No space left on device"

2024-04-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On Thu, 2024-04-11 at 16:46 +, mYnDstrEAm wrote: > > For example, I think a good approach to this would be something like > this (if the user is low on root partition disk space): > 1. asking for *at least* 400MB to be available > 2. if a parameter for stepwise is set or it detected low free

Bug#1068823: Stepwise Debian upgrade to enable systems with little free storage space to upgrade without breaks due to "No space left on device"

2024-04-11 Thread mYnDstrEAm
Package: general A distro upgrade of Debian needs a lot of disk space on the root partition. That partition often doesn't have a large size. That could for example be because it's on a mobile device, on a SSD drive, has lots of installed software, or because the user simply followed the advice