Re: Why gets unattended-upgrades installed after Debian jessie -> Debian stretch upgrade?
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 Two of my clients' systems are horribly out of date; Teamviewer is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.
--
Joe
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