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Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything



On Wednesday 05 April 2017 20:59:02 Tom Dial wrote:
> On 04/05/2017 10:22 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 April 2017 15:46:53 Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 10:26:18PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> >>> I am going to have a go at getting unattended-upgrades to work sometime
> >>> in the next few days, I will post back what my results, even if the
> >>> only thing that results is sympathy for your situation and a "me-too!"
> >>
> >> I have a working unattended-upgrades setup, I will try and remember what
> >> I had to do.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Lisi
>
> I know I am quite late to the party, but has
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades
>
> been offered as a possible answer?
yes, several times!!

> I have used it as a guide for 
> unattended-upgrades setup on a sizable handful of systems, and with
> uniform success. As I recall it, install defaults apply only security
> upgrades, and of course require that /etc/apt/sources.list include the
> version appropriate reference to security.debian.org -
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
>
> for example.

Yes.

Perhaps there is a recent temporary bug in it??  As I said, I had a short-term 
use for it and have moved on.  Though I might want to look again if I could 
do so quickly.

Lisi
>
> Tom Dial
> tdial@acm.org


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