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Bug#113504: marked as done (apt: Automatically notify admin about updates)

Your message dated Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:49:58 -0200
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Apt should (maybe optionally using debconf) create a cron job that
automatically does "apt-get update" and tells whomever receive cron
e-mail about any upgraded packages.  I have the script
/etc/cron.daily/apt-update that looks like this:

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#!/bin/sh

# Keep the apt cache current
apt-get update > /dev/null

# Update the dselect cache from the apt cache
TEMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/apt-update.XXXXXX`
apt-cache dumpavail > $TEMPFILE
dpkg --update-avail $TEMPFILE
rm $TEMPFILE

# Remind admin to keep the system current
apt-get dist-upgrade -u --trivial-only
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The script may need some work to get it working both with and without
dselect / dpkg.  Also some people may prefer not getting any mail when
there aren't any updates.  Whether the script should be included as-is
or not, I think this kind of script is something lots of people other
than me would find useful.

  Cheers //Johan

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux foo 2.2.19 #3 fre sep 7 22:47:38 CEST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.ISO8859-1, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.2.4-1           GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010902 The GNU stdc++ library

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Hello,

I'm closing this bug since this feature is now supported on Debian but
using other tools together with APT (cron-apt or apticron) and there's
no reason to reimplement it again.

Thank you

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