man upgrade-system.conf (Formats) - upgrade-system(8) configuration file
NAME
upgrade-system.conf - upgrade-system(8) configuration file
DESCRIPTION
upgrade-system.conf is the configuration file for the upgrade-system(8) Debian administration utility. This file specifies options to be passed to apt-get(8) and deborphan(1).
Lines starting with a hash mark ("#") and empty lines are ignored.
EXAMPLE
The configuration file contains three variables:
CLEANOPTS
This variable is used to pass the command line option to apt-get(8), to determine whether the autoclean or clean action will be performed. For example:
CLEANOPTS="clean"
Consult the apt-get(8) manual page to check which options are available for any particular APT version, before setting this variable.
UPGRADEOPTS
This variable is used to pass command line options to apt-get(8) and to determine whether the dist-upgrade or upgrade action will be performed. For example:
UPGRADEOPTS="dist-upgrade"
Consult the apt-get(8) manual page to check which options are available for any particular APT version, before setting this variable.
ORPHANOPTS
This variable is used to pass command line options to deborphan(1), for selecting the orphaning operations. For example:
ORPHANOPTS="--guess-all --libdevel --priority=3"
One should read the deborphan(1), manual page to check which options are available for any particular version, before setting this variable.
SECURITY
Because upgrade-system is an APT front-end, all precautions relating to APT configuration should be observed. Special attention is required at:
/etc/apt/preferences
To prevent untested packages from overwriting stable ones, setting this combination of APT preferences is recommended:
Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 990
Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 500
Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 99
Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: -1
This enforces a priority to packages from Stable, yet still allows ones from Testing, Unstable or Experimental to get installed via appropriate apt-get(8) options to override the default release.
deborphan
AUTHORS
Martin Zdrahal <martin.zdrahal@konflux.at> made the original in 2003.
Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi> wrote this manual page, packaged the Debian archive and added various enhancements in 2004.
SEE ALSO
apt-get(8), apt_preferences(5), deborphan(1), upgrade-system(8).