Re: automating apt-get

2004-02-05 Thread Graham Williams
Received Fri 06 Feb 2004 5:18am +1100 from Deryk Barker: > I think I'm on the verge of persuading our technical people that we > should be using debian in our labs rather than RH. > > One thing that would tip the scales is if it were possible to > *completely* automate the upgrade process. > > F

Re: automating apt-get

2004-02-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:05:48AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > I think I'm on the verge of persuading our technical people that we > should be using debian in our labs rather than RH. > > One thing that would tip the scales is if it were possible to > *completely* automate the upgrade process. >

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