on Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:01:23PM +0100, Stephen Patterson (s.patterson@freeuk.com) wrote:
> On Tue, 18 May 2004 10:50:17 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to disable the dynamic screen updates aptitude uses,
> > within cronjobs?
>
> What are you trying to do with aptitude in cronjobs? If its just updating
> your package lists (and I certainly wouldn't do anything else
> automatically), you could use 'apt-get update -q'
update and 'aptitude -dy dist-upgrage'.
The results of the latter, in particular, differ from 'apt-get'. I
pre-fetch my updates overnight and apply them in the morning. 56k line,
so it makes an appreciable difference.
Peace.
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