An alternative approach could be that an `apt update` would trigger an
`extrepo update`.
I don't know enough about apt hooks etc. to be able to say if that would
be feasible or - in case such a mechanism isn't available today - if
apt's maintainers would be in favor of it?
Installing a cron job that periodically retrieves extrepo updates would be
easier to implement. However the problem of offline systems should be
considered then. What do you do with systems (laptops f.ex.) that sleep
when a cron job would be triggered or that are not connected to the
internet at that time? One could look into systemd's timer mechanisms if
the support being deferred until the system wakes up and is connected to
the internet.
*t
- Bug#992155: alternative approach to automatically updating... Tomas Pospisek
-
