Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hi folks. How do I upgrade while I sleep? Or, more specifically, how
do I set it up so that all the questions about scripts that have been
changed, which are different from the package maintainers scripts,
asking if it should keep the current version, or install the new one,
blah blah blah.... the default is ... Hell, what do I know? I'm a
desktop user who's too cheap to buy Windows; so, I go with Linux (I am
going to donate some cash SPI, however). So I always choose the
default answer. How can I set up my upgrade from Sarge to Etch, to
run while I'm sleeping, without it asking me stupid questions that I
don't give a shit about? Just have it upgrade, and not bother me, fer
Christ's sake. Aw, then I can just sleep. Blissful sleep.
You probably don't really want to let it do a complete dist-upgrade
while you sleep. It may work without any problems, and, then again, it
may not. If it barfs on something, by the time you wake up in the
morning it is gonna be too late! Several years back, when I had a slow
dial-up line, I asked a similar question about doing an upgrade (not
dist-upgrade) and was given this same answer. The way to handle this,
however, if you don't want to sit around while you download hundres of
MBs of data is to use cron-apt. It can be configured to do all of the
downloading for you at a given time while you are asleep. Then, when
you are at the console, you can do an actual dist-upgrade. You will
still have to answer all of the questions, but you will know what is
happening
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Marc Shapiro
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What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
Boom. Sooner or later ... boom!
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