cron-apt
This probably does everything you need, without doing any damage to you system by default.... I just use it to do an update and download (not install) any packages overnight). Once I read the changelogs in the morning, I then decide whether to let the install proceed...
I have used cron-apt successfully before to automatically install packages, but this was on a pure 'stable' release of debian, about 4 months into the release. I did not have any third party sources, I used the automatic install solely for security updates, but things still could have gone wrong. I also stoped the automatic install well before the 'testing' release was to become the new stable.
Johnny.
Subject: Re: Auto apt-get upgrade From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:24:53 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:24:33AM +0000, Rus Foster wrote:
I'm just debating about scheduling a cron job to do apt-get update &&
apt-get update. Is this reasonable or am I going to be asking for trouble
down the line?
That's just begging for a cosmic ass-whooping, from my experiance when I tried it. Doing this is only for people who switched from Windows and really, really miss things randomly breaking for seemingly no reason.
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