Bug#113504: cron-job available

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:47:39PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:

> a cron-job that does a nightly apt-get update is available in the
> current development branch of apt (enable it with
> APT::Periodic::Update-Package_lists=intervall in /etc/apt/apt.conf). 
> 
> It's available as a arch branch at:
> http://people.debian.org/~mdz/arch
> the archive name is apt@packages.debian.org/apt--main--0
> 
> It does not send a mail when upgrades are available though.

That would be a reasonable feature to add to it, with another APT::Periodic
variable.

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 - mdz