Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 23:10 +0200, Göran Weinholt wrote: > <snip> >> Am I still correct in believing that it is not enough to simply >> install the package for it to do upgrades automatically and >> unattended as described? > > unattended-upgrade is supposed to be run by /etc/cron.daily/apt. If you > customised this some time ago and have not accepted the current version > from the apt package then it might not be run regularly.
Ah! But only since apt version 0.7.0 (according to the apt changelog). Which means that apt in etch does not run unattended-upgrade, hence my bug report. Do you agree that this is a problem? > Also, upgrades that will require manual interaction due to configuration > file changes are not installed. This is only recorded in the log (grep > for "not upgraded"). The version in unstable has an option to send mail, > but I'm not sure whether this information would appear in mail (and this > seems pointless given that cron already has that functionality). That might explain it then. Thanks! -- Göran Weinholt. Debian developer. Network administrator. Why ask useless questions? How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky? Who is John Galt?
