Comments on: Automatic update of packages using cron-apt

By: Dennis Johansen

Dennis Johansen — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:03:31 +0000

Anyone who can help me getting this tool to do the install of the downloaded packages?

Please see the email notification from yesterday - Apparently the tool is in download mode - how to set it to download and install mode?

CRON-APT RUN [/etc/cron-apt/config]: Thu Jan 14 04:00:01 CET 2010
CRON-APT SLEEP: 204, Thu Jan 14 04:03:25 CET 2010
CRON-APT ACTION: 0-update
CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get update -o quiet=2
CRON-APT ACTION: 3-download
CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get autoclean -y
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
Del libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15+lenny5 [2975kB]
Del openssl 0.9.8g-15+lenny5 [1036kB]
CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get dist-upgrade -d -y -o APT::Get::Show-Upgraded=true
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
The following packages will be upgraded:
libkrb53 libssl0.9.8 openssl
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4012kB/4493kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
libssl0.9.8 libkrb53 openssl
Authentication warning overridden.
Get:1 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15+lenny6 [2975kB]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openssl 0.9.8g-15+lenny6 [1036kB]
Fetched 4012kB in 8s (490kB/s)
Download complete and in download only mode

By: Dennis Johansen

Dennis Johansen — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:56:22 +0000

Yes, I’m with Joe and his polite critic on this issue. Would have been better with small example for the script to actually download and upgrade the box. The mail issue is self explained in the config file, while the explanation of mode to install downloaded packages isn’t?

Anyone out there who’s using this tool?

By: joe

joe — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:40:03 +0000

cron-apt Contains a tool that is run by a cron job at regular intervals. By default it just updates the package list and download new packages without installing. You can instruct it to run anything that you can do with apt-get (or aptitude).

So, how can i get it to go beyond the default and get it to do the install too? that’s far more useful to discuss here than the email options you bother explaining…