Apt autoupdates

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat May 3 11:13:34 UTC 2008


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




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