[NBLUG/talk] Automated "apt-get upgrade" problems

[E Frank Ball]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:09:56AM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
} 
} What is the best way to handle packages that require a dialog, and what
} would I do to handle them in that way?
 
I run this nightly from cron:

#!/bin/sh
apt-get -q update
apt-get --download-only --assume-yes --show-upgraded --quiet upgrade


The packages required are calculated and downloaded, but not
installed.  Then I get an email and I can see if anything
downloaded and needs installing.  Since the update and the
download is done the actual install goes very quickly.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com