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Re: aptitude autoupdating.



On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 03:35:37PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good time of the day.
> 
> 
> I have put to cron auto update of a system by aptitude.
> 
> As parameters I set safe-upgrade and 'yes' to all questions - so that
> packages might be installed itself in case of config. questions, etc.
> 
> Now I think it will not be secure in case there is a problem w/ public
> key of a maintainer - it probably will accept BAD key also.
> 
> So, my question is, What is the proper way of at one hand to get
> automation of upgrade process, at the other - to remain the upgraded
> system safe?!

Have a look at the unattended-upgrades and/or apticron packages. So much
better than rolling your own script.


-- 
Darac Marjal


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