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

[Mikalai Birukou]

> 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";
> 	};
>
This is priceless. Thank you.