#21 2020-02-21 00:17:40

johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

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Re: apt-add-repository - Availability in BL?

I don't think unattended-upgrades does much unless you configure it first. At most, as rbh says, just security updates by default. I was surprised to read it even blocked a regular apt operation around boot time. Maybe it was just downloading the latest package information?

I don't know about the Ubuntu connection, but at one point the Debian devs were discussing including it in the default Debian setup. There was opposition though, so it got dropped.

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From: Edrychwch o'ch cwmpas

Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: apt-add-repository - Availability in BL?

I don't think unattended-upgrades does much unless you configure it first. At most, as rbh says, just security updates by default. I was surprised to read it even blocked a regular apt operation around boot time. Maybe it was just downloading the latest package information?

It was doing 'apt upgrade', i.e. it was installing available upgrades! I'm positive, since I have to wait a few minutes before I could do 'apt upgrade' myself in terminal. And just after boot, I noticed I could upgrade several tens of packages (I issued 'apt update'), and after few minutes 'apt update' showed me all packages are up to date.

I have nothing against 'unattended-upgrades' package which by itself is not configured to do auto-apt-upgrade ... I just wanted to warn people that installing 'software-properties-common' package also installs 'unattended-upgrades' package, and it comes configured to do automatic 'apt upgrade'.

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johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2015-09-09

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Re: apt-add-repository - Availability in BL?

^Well, thanks for the warning.

I had u-a installed a year or two ago, just to see what it was like, but at the time I had to specifically enable it for it to do anything. I guess its default behaviour has changed.

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