Automatic and silent installation of security updates

[Martijn van de Streek]

On Fri, 08 Jul 2005, Zach wrote:

> > You can't force people to upgrade.
> I think you could have this configurable (by an admin with sudo
> priveledges).  Perhaps a sane default would be no automatic upgrades
> (we don't want to get too Microsofty, do we?), with the option to
> automatically install non-kernel security updates from official
> repositories, and a further option to install kernel updates (with
> necessary explanation of implications of this option).

Then nobody will enable it. Same problem arises.

> > > About the kernel, I don't think that should be silently upgraded either.
> > 
> > How should an upgrade-tool distinguish between kernels and other
> > packages?
> 
> if the package name contains 'linux-image', it's either a kernel or a
> metapackage for a kernel, and should be treated differently. from
> other packages.

Filtering by package name is considered Evil and Wrong by many people,
or so I believe.

Martijn
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