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Re: Automatic updates for Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Tue Jul 29 12:32:56 2008
Message-Id: <200807291632.m6TGWBi1000650@pothole.mit.edu>
To: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, athena10@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:28:29 EDT."
<alpine.DEB.1.10.0807241525310.6501@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:32:11 -0400
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
> At my work, we use cron-apt.
I also use cron-apt. (Also under Debian.) It's really just a fairly
simple shell script that provides something cleaner than putting
"apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade|mail root" in your crontab, with
a friendlier interface for choosing the source list, desired actions, and
so forth.
It works fine for just grabbing security updates, but it's screwed me a
few times with misconfigured packages when I tried it with full updates.
My gut feeling is that Debian and Ubuntu are getting better about not
making an assumption of interactivity; I suspect we could use it for full
updates for cluster machines and any fallout would be manageable.
