Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> writes: > On Monday 06 February 2017 13:54:11 Brian wrote: >> On Mon 06 Feb 2017 at 13:19:00 +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote: >> > The unattended-upgrades was not installed on my Debian jessie system. >> > After upgrading to Debian stretch, the package unattended-upgrades got >> > installed. 'reverse-depends unattended-upgrades' [1] did not make me any >> > wiser. There must be a gap of my apt knowledge. Can anyone shed light on >> > this please? >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/11/msg00117.html > > Can it cope with a back-log? Has anyone tried?
We use it in production at work. Yes, it can, *provided* you don't have any config file changes. That, it can't handle. And forgive me a bit of a rant: it's a stereotypical Ubuntu hack job: inefficient, chokes on fairly standard deviations from the norm and badly documented. I agree with the developers' sentiment that automatic upgrades are a good thing, but I really think Debian could have cooked up a better script than !@#$% 'unattended-upgrades'. Mart -- "We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes." --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.