On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:46:24 +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 22/06/2016 14:20, Irrwahn a écrit : >> Actually, I am much more in favor of the brilliant suggestion >> made by Giovanni Rapagnani in another reply: >> >> | another way of periodically updating the lists of packages is >> | to add this line in a file under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ e.g. >> | /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic: >> | >> | APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; [...] > > If the question was only to be informed, I would use apt-watch. If > it is to upgrade my system automatically, I would be afraid it brings in > some undesired systemd/gnome/*kit dependency; therefore it isn't > something I want.
Above suggestion only periodically performs the equivalent of "apt-get update", which does no harm. To let it automagically run any pending upgrades (something I am not fond of either) one would have to add these two lines: APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1"; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1"; I'm under the impression that the apt-watch backend basically serves as a proxy for "apt-get <command>". And the apt-watch frontend is a Gnome applet. (Yuck!) And it's only available in wheezy and in unstable. (D'oh!) Regards Urban _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
