[kwlug-disc] Alternative to unattended upgrades ...

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

In my case, I uninstall the unattended-upgrades package as soon as I
install Ubuntu or Xubuntu LTS on a machine.

Why? Because when upgrades are unattended, things can happen without being
scheduled, such as restarting Varnish and invalidating all the cache in it,
or causing some downtime when MySQL is restarted, or in a worst case
scenario, something fails to restart and then there is an extended downtime
if you are on the road.

What is the alternative?
The apticron package.

It emails you when updates are available, and you choose the time to
install them manually off hours, or on weekends.

The emails get sent to "root", so I set up forwarding from root to my
regular email in Postfix, using a virtual.cf file.

On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 1:06 AM Chris Frey <cdfrey at foursquare.net> wrote:

> On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 08:56:07PM -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > I tried NixOS as my daily driver and gave up because I wanted
> > a working system with unattended upgrades.
>
> Unless I'm missing something, both Debian and Ubuntu have the
> unattended-upgrades package.  No Nix required.
>
> - Chris

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Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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