Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?
On Sun, 2020-12-27 at 05:42 -0500, Devops PK Carlisle LLC wrote:
> I would like to be able to selectively exclude-with-a-warning some
> packages from automatic update as I choose, and to have the update
> process remember those choices from one update instance to the next:
>
> Chrome browser: Version a.b.c will be installed
> Firefox: Version d.e.f will be installed
> Kernel g.h.i is available (automatic update disabled by user)
> Libre Office j.k.l will be installed
> ...
>
> If I know that, for instance, a kernel update will break a wifi
> dongle
> driver or NVIDIA driver, either I must not use automatic updates at
> all
> and I must remember which packages I don't want to update and
> manually
> exclude those packages every time OR I must have enough time to
> repair
> what will break (and may update less often as a result).
>
> Now I understand the potential for dependency issues if selective
> disabling of updates is possible, but that's okay, that's Linux.
> Provide
> a warning about dependencies if that's detected and leave it up to
> the
> user to decide.
Such mechanisms for holding back upgrades already exist, just not with
the explicit 'automatic update disabled' text.
Look into `aptitude hold`/`aptitude unhold`, 'apt pinning', the
'blacklist' in unattended-upgrades.
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