On 2023-10-13 11:40:17, Antoine Beaupré wrote:

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> What's the magic setting to make apt check those updates on its own? I
> often get confused between unattended-upgrades and apt there...

Answering my own question, again, on my Debian bookworm machine, there's
a `/etc/cron.daily/apt-compat` script (for systemd-less systems) and a
`apt-daily.service` service. The latter does
`/usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily update` which, if
`APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists` is set in apt-config(8), will
periodically update the package list.

I believe that is the canonical and normal way of doing this.

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