On Tue, 7 Jul 2026 16:05:22 -0400 Eben King <[email protected]> wrote: > Generally, I dislike it when lots of things change at the same time, > so rather than going through my upgradable packages periodically and > updating the lot of them, I run a cron job that, once a day, upgrades > a package chosen at random from the list of upgradable packages. I > got to thinking it might be bad to update some parts of a package and > not others, so I want to upgrade those at the top of their tree of > dependencies.
I agree, upgrading some packages but not other related packages is a bad idea. May I suggest you look at the unattended-upgrades package? It will do a lot of what you want once a day. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
