Dan Ritter wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: >> On my trusty Thinkpad X30, upgrades are sufficiently taxing that having >> them run unexpectedly can be a real problem, so I tried to prevent >> unattended upgrades a few months ago. > > > I have always preferred the apticron package, which by default > updates daily and sends an email letting me know that they are > available, rather than doing the upgrade itself.
as everyone can have their own reasons for what they are doing i would not expect anyone else to do what i am but since we're on the topic. :) i do not run auto updates of any kind for Debian (for either testing or stable or any other instances i may have set up). currently i don't have any oddities out there running. instead, each morning i cold start my computer (i prefer it being off when i am not using it) and it boots into testing i drag in my new e-mails and usenet group posts and then fire up the update of the indexes for the various Debian package repositories it needs. after the update finishes then i check to see what kind of updates are there. some days i scan the list and just pull it all and apply them, other days i will hold certain packages because i don't want to deal with it that day. i run a few packages from sid/unstable but they usually are self-contained enough that i don't worry about it. songbird
