On 1/8/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where did you find those settings for "APT::Periodic"? I've never heard of > them, and my searches turned up dry. Are you expecting that setting those > will cause apt-get or aptitude to automatically download new packages? I > don't think that's the case; something has to actually execute the commands > to download--apt isn't a daemon. >
From /etc/cron.daily/apt # This file understands the following apt configuration variables: # # "APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists=1" # - Do "apt-get update" automatically every n-days (0=disable) # # "APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages=0", # - Do "apt-get upgrade --download-only" every n-days (0=disable) # # "APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval" # - Do "apt-get autoclean" every n-days (0=disable) # later on in the script: eval $(apt-config shell UpdateInterval APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists DownloadUpgradeableInterval APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages) AutocleanInterval=$DownloadUpgradeableInterval eval $(apt-config shell AutocleanInterval APT::Periodic::Autoclean) As you can see, those options do exist. I have managed to get this working simply by changing the format : Instead of having, <<< APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists=1 >>> I wrote >>> APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists 1 <<< And now all is working: <<< $ ls -l /var/lib/apt/periodic/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-01-08 06:26 autoclean-stamp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-01-08 06:26 download-upgradeable-stamp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-01-08 06:25 update-stamp >>> I'm happy :) > For authentication, a better solution would be to add the keys to apt's > keyring; by working around it you're throwing out the security it offers. > Yes, you are quite right. This is solvable by issuing a <<< wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc -O - | apt-key add - >>> I simply saw in this situation a good opportunity for testing the apt.conf file, to see if it has effect on my system. The funny thing is that while looking for a solution this this GPG problem, I solved another one (the one above). > For the default release, well, I don't know about "APT::Default-Release", > but I know that pinning in /etc/apt/preferences works. > Could you please attach here your pinning options ? Default-Release does work but causes me other problems that I believe would be solved by using pinning. Thank you for helping. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Cheers, Maxim Vexler (hq4ever). Do u GNU ?
