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Asked: 2011-03-21 21:13:33 +0800 CST

Unattended upgrades on Ubuntu, for *all* packages (from any repository)

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I'd like to have my Ubuntu system automatically upgrade all packages. I added to my /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic:

APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";

However, I still need to maintain the list of Allowed-Origins in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades. Is there any way to simply allow all origins?

Another more serious problem than having to maintain the origins list is the bug that origins can't contain spaces. This is fixed in the latest unattended-upgrades, but that's not in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (which we're sticking to for a while).

I also know about cron-apt, but I heard it hangs if there are prompts during the upgrade, e.g. for config file conflicts (this is also the problem with aptitude full-upgrade cron scripts), whereas unattended-upgrades can detect this and not proceed. Is there anything else out there that is behaved like unattended-upgrades but doesn't require maintenance of an Allowed-Origins list?

Note: I'm aware of the arguments against unattended upgrades. Thanks in advance for any answers.

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2 Answers

  1. I used to create a bash script like this to accomplish this task - then just call it from cron:

    #!/usr/bin/env 
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade -qq

    Honestly, I used -d -q (download only), to download the updates onto my staging server in the middle of the night. I'd then test them when I got in to the office, and push them to our internal apt-proxy server.

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  2. Try this for an automated way for all repos: https://github.com/abhigenie92/unattended_upgrades_repos

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