Package: unattended-upgrades
Version: 0.62.2
Severity: important
I'm building a number of preseeds for a large deployment I'll soon be
undertaking. As part of the deployment, I'm looking at employing this
package for automated security updates. When using dpkg-reconfigure to
enable the upgrades, I see output indicating that 20auto-upgrades has
been created in /etc/apt.conf/d. The contents of that file are:
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
If I execute dpkg-reconfigure and select to NOT automatically install
updates, this file is unmodified. If I remove the package, the file
remains as well. Only a purge removes the file. I'm not sure if that
is a problem or not; I suspect that the missing unattended-upgrade
script would prevent the update.
At best, this behavior is counterintuitive. I'm unable to find any
reference to the debconf entry enable_auto_updates in any of the files
distributed with the package, so I am assuming that 20auto-upgrades is
the only switch that this functionality has. If so, this appears to be
a rather glaring bug preventing users from disabling automatic updates.
Note that the affected system was a system deployed via preseed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on:
ii apt 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii apt-utils 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 APT utility programs
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii lsb-release 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base version report
ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze6 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-apt 0.7.100.1+squeeze1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv
unattended-upgrades recommends no packages.
Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests:
ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20100314cvs-1 simple mail user agent
-- debconf information:
* unattended-upgrades/enable_auto_updates: false
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