Re: Why gets unattended-upgrades installed after Debian jessie -> Debian stretch upgrade?
On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 17:18:25 +0000
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 Two of my clients' systems are horribly out of date; Teamviewer is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!
>
I am offering the customary software guarantees...
--
Joe
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