[conspire] Fwd: wheezy is OUT. tonight. Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: BAD meeting for 2013-05 (and mini-installfests, and ...)

[Don Marti]

begin Rick Moen quotation of Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:24:32PM -0700:

> One suggestion Don Marti made a long time ago was to just have a nightly
> cronjob that does something like:
> 
>   apt-get update && apt-get -y --download-only dist-upgrade
> 
> ('-d' is the short form for the --download-only option.)

There's a nicely set up version of the same basic idea
called "cron-apt".  It will do the update and download
while you sleep, so that the upgrade goes faster when
you're ready to do it.

Good intro article here:

  http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/162

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