Hi KatolaZ,
KatolaZ writes:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:08:22AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
> [cut]
>
>>
>> I'm using this on two Devuan machines at the office. Works fine for
>> me. Apart from running the `apt upgrade` it can also check for the need to
>> reboot and provides a number of knobs to fine tune when, how and under
>> what conditions to upgrade/reboot.
>>
>
> Hi Olaf,
>
> have you found unattended-upgrades automatically installed on those
> two boxen, or have you instead apt-get installed it afterwards?
Afterwards. Both are servers and I have a habit of doing
sudo apt-mark $(apt-mark showmanual)
# mark about two handful of packages I need as manual and then
sudo apt purge -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false \
-o APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant=false
after the initial install ;-)
Of course, the /etc/apt/apt.conf on these machines have
APT::Install-Suggests "false"; // default behaviour
APt::Install-Recommends "false";
to keep things that way too.
>> Of course, you are free to invent a better wheel ;-)
>>
>> BTW, on Devuan I did run into an issue because of a missing dependency
>> that didn't happen on Debian courtesy of systemd. Can't seem to find
>> the bug report I filed way back when at the moment but it was rather
>> unceremoniously closed.
>
> If the bug you are referring to is thts one:
>
> https://bugs.devuan.org//cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=78
No that's not the one. I filed it against Debian BTS.
> it was closed because we forked the package and solved the issue (or
> at least we thought so). We haven't had any other report of
> misfunctioning unattended-upgrades since. I think it looked like a
> regular bug, so at that time we must have concluded that no special
> "burial ceremony" was in order :D
Searching ... found it! Apologies for misremembering. The bug was with
systemd-sysv and happened on the one Debian server I'm also maintaining.
It was exposed by unattended-upgrades' `shutdown -r` in the absence of
dbus. That server also got the "zap everything that's not really needed
and keep it that way" APT treatment above ;-)
For those interested in the details, see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898388
> And please, if you believe at any time that a bug report is still
> valid, and should have not been closed, just *reopen* it. There are
> humans over here, humans who don't have access to all your machines
> and cannot try all of the almost infinite number of combinations in
> which a package can find itself :)
Thanks for the reminder but I'm aware of that. It's just that some
humans are more amenable to reason than other (as that bugreport above
sort of shows ;-)
Hope this helps,
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