Re: unattended-upgrades

[Chris <list.hurschler@gmx.de>]

On Wednesday 22 October 2014 10:46:13 Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> 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.

thanks for your suggestions Paul, but I'm really just interested in security 
upgrades on a server.

-- 
Chris