On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:37:31AM +0200, Clive McBarton wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Anyway, the cron-apt package does what you want. It is recommended,
though, to use it only for downloads.
It does help the OP since he uses apt-get, but what about the people who
normally use aptitude?
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 03:07:31AM +0200, thib wrote:
Chris Hiestand wrote:
On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-07 13:52, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
[snip]
That's a foolish thing to do, since blind acceptance can lead to a broken
system.
Maybe so, but I've been using
On 2010-04-15 18:45, Rob Owens wrote:
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:37:31AM +0200, Clive McBarton wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Anyway, the cron-apt package does what you want. It is recommended,
though, to use it only for downloads.
It does help the OP since he uses apt-get, but what about the
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John Hasler wrote:
Clive writes:
It does help the OP since he uses apt-get, but what about the people
who normally use aptitude?
If you are only using it for downloads (usual) it doesn't matter.
Certainly so. What I meant to ask is what to do
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 08:51:16, Clive McBarton wrote:
Certainly so. What I meant to ask is what to do if you (like the OP)
want automatic upgrades (downloaded and installed without the admin
present) but (unlike the OP) only use aptitude and never apt-get.
It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 08:51:16, Clive McBarton wrote:
It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and aptitude is not a problem anymore.
Sure? How can you state this? Any proof? I always thought that they were
incompatible.
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On Sat,10.Apr.10, 11:38:08, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and aptitude is not a problem anymore.
Sure? How can you state this? Any proof? I always thought that they were
incompatible.
I'm not sure what I can do to prove that something
Okay. Thanks for these precisions.
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 11:38:08, Merciadri Luca wrote:
I'm not sure what I can do to prove that something doesn't exist. I
could for example post the console output of:
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
# aptitude safe-upgrade
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:09:58PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 11:38:08, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and aptitude is not a problem anymore.
Sure? How can you state this? Any proof? I always thought that they were
Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:09:58PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
I guess this was the big headach
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411123
_was_ or _is still_?
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Merciadri Luca wrote:
Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:09:58PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
I guess this was the big headach
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411123
_was_ or _is still_?
Was.
The only thing to keep in mind is that aptitude keeps an internal
Thanks.
thib wrote:
Was.
The only thing to keep in mind is that aptitude keeps an internal
state; a sort of staging state that you work on while using the
ncurses UI. It only clears it on demand or when you commit your
changes, thus you can close and re-open a session without losing your
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 08:51:16, Clive McBarton wrote:
Certainly so. What I meant to ask is what to do if you (like the OP)
want automatic upgrades (downloaded and installed without the admin
present) but (unlike the OP) only
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 18:41:15, Clive McBarton wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and aptitude is not a problem anymore.
I believe that this is not complelely true. What is true is that, on the
command line, in interactive mode, you can use either and it will work
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 07:43:29PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:09:58PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 11:38:08, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and aptitude is not a problem anymore.
Sure?
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Ron Johnson wrote:
Anyway, the cron-apt package does what you want. It is recommended,
though, to use it only for downloads.
It does help the OP since he uses apt-get, but what about the people who
normally use aptitude? There's no cron-aptitude
Clive writes:
It does help the OP since he uses apt-get, but what about the people
who normally use aptitude?
If you are only using it for downloads (usual) it doesn't matter.
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Chris Hiestand wrote:
On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-07 13:52, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
[snip]
That's a foolish thing to do, since blind acceptance can lead to a broken
system.
Maybe so, but I've been using automatic upgrades for the last 2-3 years on many
stable
On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-07 13:52, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
how do you automate the updates in Lenny? [if you're using it as a
desktop os, and you don't want to give: apt-get update; apt-get
upgrade -y every week..]?
That's a foolish thing to do, since blind
how do you automate the updates in Lenny? [if you're using it as a
desktop os, and you don't want to give: apt-get update; apt-get
upgrade -y every week..]?
i'm using this:
#!/bin/bash
RANDOMTIME=$(echo $[ ($RANDOM % 60 ) ] )
if ! grep -q root dpkg --configure -a /etc/crontab; then echo
On 2010-04-07 13:52, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
how do you automate the updates in Lenny? [if you're using it as a
desktop os, and you don't want to give: apt-get update; apt-get
upgrade -y every week..]?
That's a foolish thing to do, since blind acceptance can lead to a
broken system.
Anyway
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 22:52:34 Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
how do you automate the updates in Lenny? [if you're using it as a
desktop os, and you don't want to give: apt-get update; apt-get
upgrade -y every week..]?
i'm using this:
#!/bin/bash
RANDOMTIME=$(echo $[ ($RANDOM % 60
Yet another solution:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/unattended-upgrades
-thib
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