Re:Distribution packages considered insecure
by creshal on Monday February 22, 2016 @03:50AM
(#11149461)
cron-apt is more or less deprecated, unattended-upgrades works far better and is included in all supported Debian versions.
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Re:Distribution packages considered insecure
by Qwertious on Monday February 22, 2016 @04:02AM
(#11149504)
Shit, how do you get people to migrate away from cron-apt? By definition they're not around to do manual migration.
Re:Distribution packages considered insecure
by Ao7bei3s on Monday February 22, 2016 @05:49AM
(#11149927)
That's what major versions are for.
(It's still in Stretch though, so you don't have to switch to unattended-upgrades until at least ~2022. https://packages.debian.org/stretch/cron-apt)
Re:Distribution packages considered insecure
by creshal on Monday February 22, 2016 @04:05AM
(#11149514)
Chef, puppet, ansible, …
Or the redneck version: Have a metapackage in your own repository that uses dependencies/conflicts to pull/remove the packages you want.
Re:Distribution packages considered insecure
by majewsky on Monday February 22, 2016 @12:59PM
(#11152786)
What you call "redneck" version is actually how I manage my system configuration. :)
The metapackage is the only one that's explicitly installed, ever. (Except for workstations where I might install applications to test them.) Part of system maintenance is to clean out orphaned packages every once in a while, usually as part of the system update.