Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Katolaz, Apologies for the delay. KatolaZ writes: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 09:14:45PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > [cut] > >> > It's in my todo-list, but I would be grateful of you would be so kind >> > to please open a bug on bugs.devuan.org, so we are sure we don't >> > forget it. >>

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-14 Thread golinux
On 2019-02-14 07:10, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 01:50:31PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: In general, in a server environment an admin wants to make sure that an upgrade actually does not stop the running services from doing their job as planned. Especially if there are customisations

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-14 Thread Clarke Sideroad via Dng
I'm also a person who thinks unattended security upgrades should be an informed choice of an installer not a default. My perspective is a little distorted due to experiences in a past life with Microsoft Windows "Automatic Updates" run amok. In fact these days, other than the occasional

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 01:50:31PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > In general, in a server environment an admin wants to make sure that > an upgrade actually does not stop the running services from doing > their job as planned. Especially if there are customisations and/or > other hacks put in place to

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-14 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 09:14:45PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: [cut] > > It's pulled in through a recommends by python3-software-properties which > itself is depended on by libreoffice-kde by way of a dependency on the > software-properties-kde package. The libreoffice-kde package is >

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-14 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi KatolaZ, KatolaZ writes: > [cut] > > None of the available task-*-desktop options brings in > unattended-upgrades (even with --install-recommends), with the only > exception of task-kde-desktop with --install-recommends. We need to > track down what is bringing it in, and remove it. It's

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 06:02:52AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 08:32:25AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I just found the following comment on Soylent News: > > > > > > https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1=30051=1=799766#commentwrap > > > > > > > > > As of Debian

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-13 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:03:27PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: [cut] > > As long as parl-desktop cannot be selected in the installer, I would > have said you were right if it weren't for what follows below. > Dear Olaf, I double-checked and there is no task-parl-desktop in Devuan. There is

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-13 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:03:27PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: [cut] > > Checking the other way around with (notice the lack of an 'r' on the > depends!) on, for example, task-gnome-desktop > > apt-cache depends --recurse \ > --no-suggests \ >

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-13 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi KatolaZ, KatolaZ writes: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 08:32:25AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I just found the following comment on Soylent News: >> >> https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1=30051=1=799766#commentwrap >> >> > As of Debian 9 (Stretch) both the unattended-upgrades and >>

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-13 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 09:12:24PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi KatolaZ, > > KatolaZ writes: > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:08:22AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > > [cut] > > > >> > >> I'm using this on two Devuan machines at the office. Works fine for > >> me. Apart from running

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-13 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi KatolaZ, KatolaZ writes: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:08:22AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > [cut] > >> >> I'm using this on two Devuan machines at the office. Works fine for >> me. Apart from running the `apt upgrade` it can also check for the need to >> reboot and provides a number of

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-13 Thread Dimitris via Dng
On 2/12/19 3:32 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> it's a Debian thing that depend on systemd to start at reboot > > Sounds like something we don't want. just for the record, unattended-upgrades doesn't depend on systemd. and it's something i use/want on servers(debian+devuan). for security updates

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-12 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:08:22AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: [cut] > > I'm using this on two Devuan machines at the office. Works fine for > me. Apart from running the `apt upgrade` it can also check for the need to > reboot and provides a number of knobs to fine tune when, how and under

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-12 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 08:32:25AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I just found the following comment on Soylent News: > > > https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1=30051=1=799766#commentwrap > > > > > As of Debian 9 (Stretch) both the unattended-upgrades and > > apt-listchanges packages

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:32:25 -0500 Hendrik Boom wrote: > I just found the following comment on Soylent News: > > > https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1=30051=1=799766#commentwrap > > > > > As of Debian 9 (Stretch) both the unattended-upgrades and > > apt-listchanges packages are

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-12 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi, Alessandro Selli writes: > On 12/02/19 at 14:32, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I just found the following comment on Soylent News: >> >> >> https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1=30051=1=799766#commentwrap >> >> >> >>> As of Debian 9 (Stretch) both the unattended-upgrades and >>>

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-12 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 12/02/19 at 14:32, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I just found the following comment on Soylent News: > > > https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1=30051=1=799766#commentwrap > > > >> As of Debian 9 (Stretch) both the unattended-upgrades and >> apt-listchanges packages are installed by default