Thomas Schmitt wrote: ... > Thanks for this description of a real world procedure. > Now i know at least that i am not the only one who cares about the > post-upgrade steps in the manual. I already began to think that everybody > lets the surplus packages rot in the dark.
i have been running the same general routine for years. every morning i boot up, run the updates for apt (but i use apt-get out of habit) and then do the updates that make sense. since i am running testing i may delay some updates for a period of time until issues look to be resolved. if there are packages that are no longer needed i will usually leave them in place until after i've made sure i don't need them any more (here or there i have had to downgrade to fix an issue so i don't want to have to recreate a configuration file) before i purge them from my system, but it may only be a few days where i don't have the purged. i also used to run orphaner, but i've not used that in quite a long time and it doesn't even appear in the archive any more. after upgrading i reboot. i want to know something is broken when i have time to fix it instead of finding out when i don't have time. i do keep a bootable stable partition though for emergencies and comparison. once in a while i remove any unneeded downloaded packages from my apt cache so i'm not wasting too much space on my system, but that's once a month or so when things seem to be quiet enough that i'm not at risk of removing a package i might need to downgrade. > Have a nice day :) :) > Thomas songbird
