Hi Gabriel, Thanks for reporting. I can't see how you're getting this warning, considering that there's no '--force-yes' in your script. It's been removed from apticron since dec/2015. See #806948.
Maybe you're getting it from another server, or from another apticron script in your server? Bests, On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 05:10:06PM -0500, Gabriel Filion wrote: > Package: apticron > Version: 1.1.61 > Severity: normal > > Hello, > > Ever since we have stretch servers using apticron, we're getting emails > from the cron runs that show only two warning messages, twice the same > line: > > W: --force-yes is deprecated, use one of the options starting with > --allow instead. > > > I've run apticron with tracing on (bash -x apticron) and found out that > the two following commands are the ones causing the warnings: > > /usr/bin/apt-get -q -y --ignore-hold --allow-unauthenticated -s > dist-upgrade > > and: > > /usr/bin/apt-get --ignore-hold -qq -d dist-upgrade > > This means that apticron is calling apt-get with a deprecated set of > arguments, but I'm not sure how to fix this yet. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 9.3 > APT prefers oldoldstable > APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: > LC_ALL set to en_CA.utf8), LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: > LC_ALL set to en_CA.utf8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages apticron depends on: > ii apt 1.4.8 > ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 > ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-128+b1 > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 > ii dpkg 1.18.24 > ii mailutils [mailx] 1:3.1.1-1 > ii ucf 3.0036 > > Versions of packages apticron recommends: > ii apt-listchanges 3.10 > ii iproute2 4.9.0-1+deb9u1 > > apticron suggests no packages. > > -- debconf information excluded -- tiago