Greetings!
Scenario:
I have a Sid desktop computer that acts as a router for my home network.
If I wait for a few months to perform an "apt upgrade", many packages get
upgraded.
The upgrade starts with shutting down isc-dhcp-server (in order to upgrade
it), then starts to upgrade all the packages, and finally some hours later
the upgrade starts isc-dhcp-server.
This is a bit annoying as it DoS'es all the other computers on my network.
I know I could do:
apt install isc-dhcp-server
apt upgrade
to work around this issue.
Is there something more elegant? Like a "minimize downtime" for a package
config file?
Hand-wavy solution...
$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/minimize-downtime
APT::Minimize-Downtime {
bind9
apache2
isc-dhcp-server
}
Does anyone think this idea could be pushed into package metadata?
Thanks for any help or dialog.
-m
