I would like to push this. Updates just every day is just horrible, especially for servers.
Of course, there's other ways like dumping some `apt update` inside /etc/cron.hourly, but this doesn't do locking etc, so it would be cool if the "daily" script could be used for this. As for the "how": > One solution wrt to the current definition of the options (which should > of course remain backwards compatible with respect to the "day" unit) > would be that each option get's an corresponding unit-option which > defaults to "1 day" > so e.g. for APT::Archives::MaxAge > there would be a corresponding > APT::Archives::MaxAge::Unit, which defaults to say 86400s and > internally the script works with 1s resolution. I think this is a bad idea. It would make the significance of one option depending on another one. I think a better (and easier to implement, probably) way would be to allow non-integer values for this option - an update roughly every two hours could be configured by setting this to "0.1". (Alternatively, unit suffixes such as 2h, 30m, ... could be implemented)
