On Mon 22 Jul 2024 at 05:47:58 (+0800), cor...@free.fr wrote: > I have been running an old debian 11 for many days. > is it safe to run 'apt upgrade' and 'apt update' periodically? > for example put them into crontab.
I run the following from root's crontab: apt-get -qq -o Acquire::http::Proxy="http://192.168.1.14:3142/"; update && apt-get -qq -d -o Acquire::http::Proxy="http://192.168.1.14:3142/"; dist-upgrade && find /var/cache/apt/archives/ -name '*deb' (That's all on one line.) If find lists any .deb files, it sends me an email. I use apt-cacher-ng on one machine as a proxy, which you might not, in which case omit both occurrences of: -o Acquire::http::Proxy="http://192.168.1.14:3142/"; > I ask this question because I am worried that some software updates > may conflict with each other after running in this way, resulting in > system unavailability. They shouldn't do if you're actually running Debian 11. But I prefer to see the upgrades themselves performed, so I'm happy for just the downloads and consequent notification to be automated. Cheers, David.
