Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

[Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>]

:: Walter Tautz writes:

> Just wondering if this is possible in view of the fact that
> configuration is sometime done and so requires interaction.

> Is the -q option appropriate? .....any advice?

> -walter

Assuming you want to download the files at night, for example. I
believe you can either: 

1) Use "apt-get -d upgrade", so the files will be downloaded but not
   installed. So you can run an apt-get upgrade in the morning while
   disconnected, since all files were fetched, and then you'll bne
   able to interact with dpkg.

2) Use "apt-get -y upgrade", in which case a "yes" will be assumed in
   all questions... But I think there are situations in which a yes
   won't help, and then apt-get will abort (but you'll still have all
   files downloaded an will be able to install whatever was missing in
   the morning).

J.

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