Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Should the user really want silent updates ?
> For updates with priority "security", I think it should just pop-up more
> often.
People ignore dialogs like that. IMHO if we're going to avoid
botnet nightmares, we're going to need at least some silent security updates.
> But if someone really needs it, it should be do-able (Assuming one is not on a
> rolling-release)
> apt ships a /etc/cron.daily/apt script.
> So with the following in place:
> APT {
> Get {
> Assume-Yes "true";
> Upgrade "true";
> } }
> One should be able to achieve silent updates
assume-yes sounds dangerous. And that whole change seems
rather global, unless I misunderstand. I don't want to change
the entire system update policy, just the policy for apps with
crucial security updates.
- Dan
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