symlink persist follow-up

[Grizzly]

Friday, September 29, 2023  at 15:00, Keith wrote:
Re: symlink persist follow-up (at least in part)

>On 9/29/23 10:49 AM, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
>> Friday, September 29, 2023  at 9:37, Keith wrote:
>> Re: symlink persist follow-up (at least in part)

>>> I don't know what's going on with Mate packages being installed, though.
>>> I'd check /var/log/apt/history.log* for clues.
 
Have attached a txt file of /var/log/apt/history.log

I found a lot of

/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade

AFAICS they didn't have a direct effect on the mate  thing, I do see that even 
after I took mate-desktop off, a later ubuntu-unity-desktop reinstall had a few 
mate files

>I never use "-y", and frequently use "-s" (simulate). If I did use the 
>"-y" option, I would always use it with "-s" because I want to see 
>what's going to change before the system is actually updated. If there 
>is nothing unexpected shown in the output, then I remove "-s" and 
>proceed with the package action.

I used -y on update, just found it seems to do nothing, I have now added

list --upgradable

then I can check what is going to happen

I wont use full-upgrade -y again, it was there because i have a V E R Y  slow 
internet connection, and it can take update a long time to process, an djust 
sitting there to hit "y" (if sudo didn't time-out already) was a PITA, but not 
as much as trying to get a working system back ;-<)

off out now back in 3+ hours
-------------- next part --------------
The following section of this message contains a file attachment
prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format.
If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any other MIME-compliant system,
you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer.
If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance.

   ---- File information -----------
     File:  hist_snippit.txt
     Date:  30 Sep 2023, 7:07
     Size:  14990 bytes.
     Type:  Text
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: hist_snippit.txt
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 14990 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20230930/c93a4320/attachment-0001.obj>