Re: running aptitude and apt-get from cron

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:
> I have been running 'apt-get-update' from cron during the night.  Root
> gets sent the output which is much as one would see in a terminal.
> 
> However, following a recent message from someone (Colin Watson???) to
> the list suggesting that it is better to run aptitude than apt-get
> directly,

I would have been more likely to suggest using 'dselect update', for the
reason that that also keeps /var/lib/dpkg/available up to date.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]