[Touch-packages] [Bug 1615482] Re: apt-daily timer runs at random hours of the day

2016-11-09 Thread John Morton
Separating out u-u from the rest of the apt maintenance script could be useful, but I prefer running the update, package fetch, upgrade then cache clean up all in one hit. You *can* delay your reboot time, but the shutdown command, at least pre-systemd would run until the shutdown happens,

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1615482] [NEW] apt-daily timer runs at random hours of the day

2016-08-22 Thread John Morton
Public bug reported: apt, from 1.2.10 onwards (ie any version in Xenial, onwards) uses a systemd timer instead of a cron.daily job. This is a good thing, decoupling apt daily runs from the rest of cron, and ensuring other cron.daily jobs are not blocked by up to half an hour by the default