[kwlug-disc] Unattended upgrades - what is your experience and attitude

[Chris Frey]

On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 08:40:42AM -0400, jason.eckert wrote:
> I've never hsd a problem with it either.And while I don't do it
> today, I've used apt-mark to exclude any packages from auto upgrading
> successfully in the past.

That's certainly possible, but adds steps when you're upgrading
manually.

You can actually add a list of packages you want to skip during
unattended upgrades in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades.
Here's the comment from Ubuntu 18.04's default config:

	// List of packages to not update (regexp are supported)
	Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist {
	//      "vim";
	//      "libc6";
	//      "libc6-dev";
	//      "libc6-i686";
	};

- Chris