On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 09:38:50PM -0400, Mike Eldridge wrote: > Package: unattended-upgrades > Version: 0.62.2 > Severity: important
Thanks for your bugreport. > I'm building a number of preseeds for a large deployment I'll soon be > undertaking. As part of the deployment, I'm looking at employing this > package for automated security updates. When using dpkg-reconfigure to > enable the upgrades, I see output indicating that 20auto-upgrades has > been created in /etc/apt.conf/d. The contents of that file are: > > APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; > APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1"; > > If I execute dpkg-reconfigure and select to NOT automatically install > updates, this file is unmodified. If I remove the package, the file > remains as well. Only a purge removes the file. I'm not sure if that > is a problem or not; I suspect that the missing unattended-upgrade > script would prevent the update. [..] The debconf question was originally designed to have a starting point configuration. But I agree that its not really intuitive so I added support for disabling into bzr now. This will be part of the next update and enable/disable should work. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
