Re: unattended-upgrades does not install upgrades on shutdown
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:31:22 +1100
Keith Bainbridge <ke1th3216@gmail.com> wrote:
> It was intuition rather than any knowledge I had - beyond the fact
> that sometimes upgrade takes longer than normal.
>
> How to prevent a repeat is the real question.
Upgrades and updates often require fetching across the network, which
can induce network delays. For other reasons entirely, I prefetch my
upgrades so they are on the computer before I start the upgrades. I put
the following into a file in /etc/cron.d:
# cron replaces the percent sign with a new line, so we escape it with a back slash.
5 3 * * * root sleep $( echo $((1 + RANDOM \% 1200)) ) ; /usr/bin/apt-get update > /dev/null && /usr/bin/apt-get -dy dist-upgrade > /dev/null
(Pasted with long lines; your mail client may mangle it.)
You might do something similar before the automatic upgrades occur.
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