Re: unattended-upgrades
op 19-10-14 14:46, Chris schreef:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having no luck getting unattended-upgrads working on a Wheezy
> server. The image for Wheezy is from my vServer provider and has not
> been a problem until now. I'm not a programmer so bear with me.
>
> No entry appears in /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log
> other than the dry runs.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My experiences with unattended-upgrades from Wheezy is that it is not
very useable for me. It's possible to get the security support working,
but if you use other repositories like backports it's a pain to get it
working and tested.
I am using myself version 0.82.9 from testing on Wheezy. That's no
problem because it's a Python program with no special dependencies. I've
downloaded the deb-file, and used "dpkg -i" to install it. When you see
errors you need "apt-get -f install". I've seen there is a version
0.82.10 in testing now, I expect it will be the same.
In the newer version you can use "origin=*" (see
/usr/share/doc/unattended-upgrades/README.md). When you use that,
everything in your apt-configuration will be upgraded. Of cause you need
to be careful with what you put in your apt-configuration.
The older version in Wheezy has only it's own configuration which
repositories to upgrade. In my experience this does not work nice.
With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.
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Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen
http://www.vandervlis.nl
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