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Re: automating updates?



On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:49:37AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>   I currently have a cronjob that does a "apt-get update && apt-get
>   -d -y dist-upgrade" to get all the updates local to my box each
>   night.  Is there a way to tell apt to install any packages that
>   won't require human intervention?  aka install anything that
>   doesn't require me to choose a keyboard, etc?
> 
>   This way if I go a few days without doing my updates I wont miss
>   something critical hopefully?

Not at the moment.  There is some talk on debian-devel about how to
automate installations, but there isn't any packaged way of doing it
right now.

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