Apt autoupdates

[Suren Karapetyan]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Suren Karapetyan wrote:
>> Hi there!
>> Yesterday I was playing with synaptic (so I installed apt, ...)
>> Today in the morning I received a message from fcron telling that apt 
>> has successfully upgraded my PC to the latest rawhide (Before it I 
>> kept old Xorg and Kernel to run Nvidia drivers: yum update 
>> --exclude...).
>> IIRC yum-updatesd isn't configured to update without asking so my 
>> question is:
>> Is it desired for apt "CHECK_ONLY=no" in default /etc/sysconfig/apt.
>
> Yeah. Auto updates without asking the user isn't consistent with the 
> behaviour of the rest of the package management systems.
>
> Rahul
>
Should I file a bug?
Cause it's really annoying... It installs a new init script without any 
notice, makes it run by default and makes it update your system... 
without asking you.
For yum at least we have seperate package yum-updatesd so even if it 
made autoupdates default the name makes you check for a new init script.
And it can really screw the system. Today I spent an hour and ~100M 
traffic to bring the things back. Well traffic doesn't mean much for me 
(it's cool to work for an ISP) but some people may have problems with it.