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2015-09-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Cindy-Sue Causey (butterflyby...@gmail.com): > On 9/4/15, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > On 01/09/15 17:47, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> > >> Thanks to all three for very helpful replies. > >> > >> Unfortunately Elimar's suggestion only partially helped; it did not > >> clear /var/lib/apt/l

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. >

automating apt-get

2004-02-05 Thread 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. For instance: our techies would do an update followed by an upgrade on a

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