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#4 Re: A short introduction to cron-apt Posted by Anton (66.156.xx.xx) on Thu 16 Jun 2005 at 06:47 Very handy, thanks for the article. I'm going to give it a try. The best feature - for me at least - is to be informed when/which updates are available, because I agree that auto-installing is not such a good idea. When running Sarge when it was still Testing, there were times when repeated subsequent upgrades of packages were sometimes bothersome, especially when each time a configuration file would change (apcupsd comes to mind at one time), forcing one to review what had changed each time. Now that it's Stable, updates aren't that frequent anymore, which I like a lot better. One suggestion I'd make, instead of running "apt-get dist-upgrade" I recommend using aptitude for such upgrades, because it gives you an overview and control over suggested/recommended packages. Plus (and this is a big plus in my book), aptitude will uninstall such dependent packages later on if the "parent" package is uninstalled, unless of course there's still a need for it to satisfy other packages' dependencies. Anton

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