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unattended-upgradesandcronjobs for everything else ftw.No Linux system of mine upgrades itself without my explicit consent. That's one of the many reasons why I don't run Windows.
Setting those up is me explicitly giving my consent for it to upgrade on a schedule.
Yeah alright. That's one way of looking at it π
I guess what I meant is that I don't like upgrades that happen without me explicitly requesting each and every one of them, and me watching the upgrade process as it happens for errors.
I never got
unattended-upgradesto work for me on the machine I tried it on. Best I could tell, it just didn't do anything. It was frustrating.But many years back I set up my raspberry pi with a cron job that was effectively (if not literally)
apt update && apt full-upgrade && rebootand that seemed to be working just fine.It broke some things (horrifically) for me because headers didn't get updated, modules didn't get rebuilt.
To make it worse, I didn't set it up. That shit is disabled now. Defunct. Toast. Never again to run.
You need to edit the config file
I followed a number of guides to try to get it to work. Including doing that. No dice.
I still think it's probably user error on my part, but I'm still shocked there was no command to effectively "force run an unattended upgrade now" to test that it works correctly.
I even set it up using ansible, should work lol
Install the package, edit the config file, maybe enable a systemd service, maybe not even that