Re: [LCFC] templates://unattended-upgrades/{templates}
Christian Perrier wrote:
> Package: unattended-upgrades
> Architecture: all
> Depends: python, ${shlibs:Depends}, python-apt (>= 0.7), apt-utils (>= 0.7), apt (>= 0.7), ucf
> Suggests: mailx
> Description: automatic installation of security upgrades
> This package can download and install security upgrades automatically
> and unattended, taking care to only install packages from the
> configured APT source, and checking for configuration file prompts.
"Configuration file prompts" replaces "conffile prompts", right?
Fair enough, I'd missed that, but now that I see it spelled out it
occurs to me that not all answers to install-time questions are
stored in files - some set up symlinks, setuid bits etc. Does it
really mean "debconf prompts"?
How about just saying "and checking for configuration prompts"?
> .
> This script is the backend for the APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade
> option.
(This seems like namespace-hogging to me - thanks to cron-apt I've
been happily doing periodic unattended upgrades since before Ubuntu
even existed...)
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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