Re: automate updates in Lenny
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,10.Apr.10, 08:51:16, Clive McBarton wrote:
>
>> Certainly so. What I meant to ask is what to do if you (like the OP)
>> want automatic upgrades (downloaded and installed without the admin
>> present) but (unlike the OP) only use aptitude and never apt-get.
>
> It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and aptitude is not a problem anymore.
I believe that this is not complelely true. What is true is that, on the
command line, in interactive mode, you can use either and it will work
fine. But the options you can pass to aptitude and apt-get are not the same.
Back to the specific question of cron-apt, I tried it myself (replacing
"apt-get" with "aptitude" in its config) to notify me by email of
pending upgrades, and it was useless. I had to remove it. Had I left
apt-get in its config, it probably would have worked. I could probably
dig out or try to reproduce some of the error msgs I got, but far more
helpful for the list would be if someone who ever managed cron-apt with
aptitude (if such a person exists) would post here how they did it.
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