:: kmself writes: > on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 03:27:40PM -0500, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: >> Just wondering if this is possible in view of the fact that >> configuration is sometime done and so requires interaction.
> *DON'T* run a blind upgrade as a matter of course. Particularly if > you're tracking unstable. > My preference: > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --download-only Maybe do an apt-get update first, then choose the wanted packages, and put only an apt-get -y upgrade in the crontab? That way he'd have a chance to see what he's upgrading first -- although there's still some chance that things would break, I suppose... I usually do a apt-get -d dist-upgrade at night (when connection time is cheaper here), but I do the update and selection before. J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
