Re: Automating apt-get dist-upgrade

2002-01-19 Thread David Bell
You could use apt-get -y dist-upgrade to automatically answer yes to all questions. Though, packages might be removed that shouldn't, I'd think. On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 01:25, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Hi all - I have seen some reference on this list about putting the > 'apt-get dist-upgrade' p

Re: Automating apt-get dist-upgrade

2002-01-19 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:25:18AM +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote (1.00): > manually, it requires user input. Any suggestions? I ended up writing a small shell script that I put in my daily cron. It doesn't actually do the install... instead, it downloads all of the debs, and email's me what go

Automating apt-get dist-upgrade

2002-01-19 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi all - I have seen some reference on this list about putting the 'apt-get dist-upgrade' process in a daily cron. I would like to know the best way to do that. If I do a: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade manually, it requires user input. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Erik van der Meule