Re: Daily update package archive

[John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>]

Tong writes:
> What is the recommended way to 'aptitude update' daily and update the
> files in /var/cache/apt/archives/ as well (without actually install
> anything)?

Package: cron-apt
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 88
Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.4.8
Depends: apt, debianutils (>= 1.7)
Recommends: liblockfile1, mailx
Filename: pool/main/c/cron-apt/cron-apt_0.4.8_all.deb
Size: 21768
MD5sum: df1a9f4f5f1279c9c05729eba954c2dd
SHA1: 316553cdbb077a7c17aebb85812e7081fbff9e6f
SHA256: c1d29f7570c136eda239abcadbd8f03200ea5d15c3a58358ce9ab53d5df82389
Description: automatic update of packages using apt-get
 Contains a tool that is run by a cron job at regular intervals. By default it
 just updates the package list and download new packages without installing.
 You can instruct it to run anything that you can do with apt-get
 (or aptitude).
 .
 It can optionally sends mail to the system administrator on errors, log
 to syslog or a separate log file.
 .
 Observe that this tool may be a security risk, so you should not set it
 to do more than necessary. Automatic upgrade of all packages is NOT
 recommended unless you are in full control of the package repository.
Tag: admin::package-management, interface::daemon, role::sw:server, suite::debian, use::downloading, works-with::software:package

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John Hasler