[Gllug] Fonts problem in Debian

[John Edwards]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:56:18PM +0100, lesleyb at herlug.org.uk wrote:
<snip> 
> I am wondering - you have users that won't update their systems? Perhaps a script
> (using sudo to execute the aptitude commands) would suffice if they are scared of root?  
> You could detect whether there are any updates to do by running a -s safe-upgrade first.

Or the "unattended-upgrades" packages, which is a python script
designed to do this with logging and some safety feaures. You can
set to only upgrade packages from only certain repositories (eg
hardy-security, hardy-upgrades).

Docs used to be a bit lacking when I first looked at it a couple
of years ago, but there has ben some more work since then.

The main config file is /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades,
and to activate it I had to include the following in that file:
--------
// These APT::Periodic settings should mean that /etc/cron.daily/apt 
// will update package list and upgrade packages every day. It should 
// be noted that places timestamp files in /var/lib/apt/periodic/ to 
// stop multiple runs. You must remove them before running it again.
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
--------


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