On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:29:57PM +0100, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> Package: unattended-upgrades
> Version: 0.75.1
> Severity: wishlist

Thanks for your bugreport.
 
> It would be nice if it was possible to configure unattended-upgrades to
> install the updates during shutdown. The idea is that you don't want
> updates to be automatically installed while the user is using his machine
> but you still want to ensure that the updates get regularly installed.
> 
> Doing it during startup is difficult because you really want to start
> fast and you're likely to have concurrency problems if some services are
> started while an upgrade is running... thus I believe that doing it at
> shutdown is the least disruptive time.
> 
> For even less disruption, it could install the upgrades only if they
> were already downloaded by a former call.

I like this idea and added it to trunk in lp:unattended-upgrades. The
option is "Unattended-Upgrade::InstallOnShutdown"

Cheers,
 Michael

> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 
> 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on:
> ii  apt                    0.8.15.9
> ii  apt-utils              0.8.15.9
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41
> ii  lsb-release            3.2-28
> ii  python                 2.7.2-9
> ii  python-apt             0.8.3
> ii  ucf                    3.0025+nmu2
> 
> unattended-upgrades recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests:
> ii  bsd-mailx  8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1
> 
> -- debconf information excluded
> 
> 



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