On Monday 06 February 2017 16:55:25 Joe wrote: > On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 16:30:36 +0000 > > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Monday 06 February 2017 13:54:11 Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 06 Feb 2017 at 13:19:00 +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > > > > The unattended-upgrades was not installed on my Debian jessie > > > > system. After upgrading to Debian stretch, the package > > > > unattended-upgrades got installed. 'reverse-depends > > > > unattended-upgrades' [1] did not make me any wiser. There must be > > > > a gap of my apt knowledge. Can anyone shed light on this please? > > > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/11/msg00117.html > > > > Can it cope with a back-log? Has anyone tried? I can't > > suck-it-and-see on any of my own systems because they are all up to > > date. > > > > Two of my clients' systems are horribly out of date; Teamviewer is > > playing up; I haven't sussed port forwarding via that router and on a > > Dynamic IP, and I am having difficulty getting physical access. I am > > sure that I could talk one of them through installing > > unattended-upgrades if it could then sort out the much-needed > > security updates. The rest can wait for the other problems to be > > solved!! > > Are they stable? I don't think that a released stable can accumulate > enough updates in its entire life to cause trouble, whereas an unstable > neglected for a year is likely (though not certain) to need nursing > carefully up to date. Stable doesn't get its entire architecture and > its fundamental libraries mucked about with.
The underlying Debian, yes. 8.4 or 5. The desktop less so. But if unattended upgrades does security only that shouldn't cause a problem. This seems to be my answer! Great! Thanks, Joe. Lisi