We'll eventually get a retry support in apt, if updating failed, but there are no plans to react to connection state changes.
The retry will be linear every 10 minutes or so I suppose, but can't be sure, we'll have to see - I'd do exponential, but systemd does not give us an option for that. Any change is not suitable for backporting to old releases. Tthis is a tough topic, but our behavior wrt to updating is not different from other major platforms - e.g. Android only installs updates in the same conditions. It just gets the service triggered automatically if it missed it due to conditions, but systemd does not retrigger nor does it know about network state. FWIW, I believe that all desktops do have their own integration, because they need to for every other distribution, because that's how PackageKit works. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1886161 Title: UU should work on roaming laptops Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: For many if not most laptop computers, Unattended Upgrades seems all but useless by design. For upgrades to happen, with default config, 3 conditions must be met: - an internet connection must be up and running when the timer or cron or anacron tries the unattended upgrade - the connection must not be metered, whatever that means (Skip-Updates-On-Metered-Connections "true") - the computer must be plugged in (OnlyOnACPower "true") These are insurmountable problems for many laptops on the go. Inevitably, security upgrades will almost never run unattended on such computers. I discovered with shock that Unattended Upgrades had almost never run on my laptop. I tried all possible config tweaks. Nothing worked reliably and in the end I gave up and wrote a upgrade script which uses Network Manager's connection-up hook. Unattended Upgrades needs to do something like this out of the box. Users should not need to write scripts to ensure security upgrades. Unattended upgrades is an excellent project for servers. But it really needs to work, out of the box, on laptops too. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1886161/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
