On Wednesday 22 October 2014 10:46:13 Paul van der Vlis wrote: > op 19-10-14 14:46, Chris schreef: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having no luck getting unattended-upgrads working on a Wheezy > > server. The image for Wheezy is from my vServer provider and has not > > been a problem until now. I'm not a programmer so bear with me. > > > > No entry appears in /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log > > other than the dry runs. > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > My experiences with unattended-upgrades from Wheezy is that it is not > very useable for me. It's possible to get the security support working, > but if you use other repositories like backports it's a pain to get it > working and tested. > > I am using myself version 0.82.9 from testing on Wheezy. That's no > problem because it's a Python program with no special dependencies. I've > downloaded the deb-file, and used "dpkg -i" to install it. When you see > errors you need "apt-get -f install". I've seen there is a version > 0.82.10 in testing now, I expect it will be the same. > > In the newer version you can use "origin=*" (see > /usr/share/doc/unattended-upgrades/README.md). When you use that, > everything in your apt-configuration will be upgraded. Of cause you need > to be careful with what you put in your apt-configuration. > > The older version in Wheezy has only it's own configuration which > repositories to upgrade. In my experience this does not work nice. > > With regards, > Paul van der Vlis.
thanks for your suggestions Paul, but I'm really just interested in security upgrades on a server. -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201410221741.18487.list.hursch...@gmx.de
