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Re: Why gets unattended-upgrades installed after Debian jessie -> Debian stretch upgrade?



On Monday 06 February 2017 16:55:25 Joe wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 16:30:36 +0000
>
> Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 06 February 2017 13:54:11 Brian wrote:
> > > On Mon 06 Feb 2017 at 13:19:00 +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> > > > The unattended-upgrades was not installed on my Debian jessie
> > > > system. After upgrading to Debian stretch, the package
> > > > unattended-upgrades got installed. 'reverse-depends
> > > > unattended-upgrades' [1] did not make me any wiser. There must be
> > > > a gap of my apt knowledge. Can anyone shed light on this please?
> > >
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/11/msg00117.html
> >
> > Can it cope with a back-log?  Has anyone tried?  I can't
> > suck-it-and-see on any of my own systems because they are all up to
> > date.
> >
> > Two of my clients' systems are horribly out of date; Teamviewer is
> > playing up; I haven't sussed port forwarding via that router and on a
> > Dynamic IP, and I am having difficulty getting physical access.  I am
> > sure that I could talk one of them through installing
> > unattended-upgrades if it could then sort out the much-needed
> > security updates.  The rest can wait for the other problems to be
> > solved!!
>
> Are they stable? I don't think that a released stable can accumulate
> enough updates in its entire life to cause trouble, whereas an unstable
> neglected for a year is likely (though not certain) to need nursing
> carefully up to date. Stable doesn't get its entire architecture and
> its fundamental libraries mucked about with.

The underlying Debian, yes.  8.4 or 5.  The desktop less so.  But if 
unattended upgrades does security only that shouldn't cause a problem.  This 
seems to be my answer!  Great!

Thanks, Joe.

Lisi


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