On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:54:13 +0300 David Baron <d_ba...@012.net.il> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 September 2015 09:32:08 David Christensen wrote: > > On 09/06/2015 02:55 AM, David Baron wrote: > > > Now that the g++ business is largely behind us, want to start > > > upgrading. Problem is that with that darned partitioning by the > > > Debian installation, there is not enough room on /var to > > > accomplish upgrade of such size. > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/08/msg01056.html > > > > > > David > > Thanks, but I know how to, do not want to, reinstall. Should not have > to do so. > > Thinking of moving the /var/tmp KDE stuff elsewhere and symlinking. > This takes up a large plurality, even majority of /var, not needed > before login and home is mounted. What about that? > How close are you? If you upgrade, then clear the package cache, you minimise the amount of work a dist-upgrade needs to do and maximise the available space. If that isn't enough, you might manage to upgrade groups of packages rather than all in one go. If you have a GUI, you might find synaptic easier for that kind of work than aptitude or apt-get. You don't mention which distribution, but unstable certainly isn't in a position to fully dist-upgrade at the moment, so I wouldn't have thought that testing is either. After the g++ earthquake, we still have the KDE tsunami to deal with. Libreoffice also cannot be upgraded, but it has recently been in that state twice and recovered fairly quickly, so it probably isn't a problem. But certainly in unstable, quite a few packages which were stuck for a few weeks have now upgraded, and I shifted about fifty this evening. -- Joe
