On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:00:17PM -0700, Asura wrote: > > > Completely unattended upgrades are a worthwhile goal, but they aren't > > possible in the general case yet. > > I am interested in this because if I'm at home, and telnet to my linux > which is at work, I'd like to tell it to upgrade remotely without having > to stay online for hours while it downloads and installs the updates. > > In this case, I'd like it to download the gnome desktop packages and it'd > be ready when I come back into work on Monday. Otherwise, I'd either have > to stay onthe phone, or wait until I get to work--in either case, its a > loss of productive time for me.
Why not set up a cron job to:
apt-get update; apt-get --download-only upgrade
That should let the (lengthy) download happen unattended. And when you
feel like it then you can perform the installation as normal with:
# apt-get upgrade
(*without* the --download-only switch).
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Karl E. Jørgensen
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