Re: Timer doing apt update

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Subject: Re: Timer doing apt update
From: Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:56:49 +0000
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Hi,

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 10:21:24PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Does anyone know when these things changed, and why on earth nobody
> knew about it?!  Did I miss a section in the release notes or something?

Why are you shocked by this? Most of it is disabled by default (no
update / upgrade / unattended-upgrade). You have to set things like
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists to 1.

It's been there since Debian 9 (stretch) IIRC.

The handbook has stuff about it.

https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.regular-upgrades.html

Thanks,
Andy

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