I had a realization today

Oisteink , 9 months ago

Here’s the wiki article - never had an issue following that

wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

Can also suggest reading the man page. For completeness and just general knowledge also read the man pages for apt, apt.conf

igorlogius , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Kind of glad i dont have to worry about stuff like this anymore, but i do sympathize as a former debian user.

h3ndrik , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Moved to the countryside and stopped using computers? Or why don’t you need to worry about automatic updates? Are you the boss and other people do the worrying? Or do you use one of those immutable distros and now worry in a different way?

igorlogius , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

well, with stuff like this i meant dpkg-reconfigure, since i switched to nixos where configuring and setting up basically means adding/editing a couple of lines in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix. For automatic system updates for example, i just had to add: system.autoUpgrade.enable = true; and done. Nicest way to configure and manage a system i’ve experienced yet.

WeAreAllOne , 9 months ago

Don’t all these edits create huge snapshots or what is called in nixos ?

igorlogius , 9 months ago

not really an issue with a few more lines of configuration

<span style="color:#323232;">nix.gc = {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    automatic = true;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    dates = "weekly";
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    options = "--delete-older-than 30d";
</span><span style="color:#323232;">};
</span>

WeAreAllOne , 9 months ago

Nice!

possiblylinux127 OP , 9 months ago

What do you use?

igorlogius , 9 months ago

nixos.org

JustEnoughDucks , 9 months ago

Not a fan od it. I had more of a problem with unattended upgrades at least weekly restarting my system even though I had restarts explicitely disabled.

After a lot of “impossible” in the support forums saying “that would never happen” even after showing that it happened in flesh during the unattended upgrade, I uninstalled it and voila, I have only had a restart intentionally or by a crash.

Oisteink , 9 months ago

It is impossible that unattended-upgrades reboots without the Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot flag set. Source: the function def reboot_if_requested_and_needed(): on line 1688 in the script.

Probably your config was wrong

lemann , 9 months ago

Same, never had unattended upgrades trigger a reboot in all the years it’s been set up on my project servers.

The only cause of reboots in my case has been power failures and dead UPSes lol