On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 13:58 +0200, Göran Weinholt wrote: > 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? <snip>
Sorry, I am confusing the etch and sid versions. The version in etch is undocumented except by the package description. The description seems to suggest a totally automatic process (e.g. run by cron), which it clearly doesn't provide. The documentation should be clear that if you want it to run regularly, you need to set up a cron job. The version in sid is documented as integrating with apt and depending on "a recent apt". However, the control file doesn't state the dependency, and that is clearly a bug. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
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