Automatic and silent installation of security updates

[Jim Cheetham]

On Jul 9, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Jerry Haltom wrote:
>> You can't force people to upgrade.
> In a corporate deployment it is almost unacceptable to not be able to.
>
However, a corporate doesn't often suffer from a dearth of bandwidth.
Anyone selecting "automatic downloads" suffers from unpredictable loss 
of bandwidth when a download starts.

Unless the automation understands it needs to be well-behaved, in which 
case it will throttle its own use of the network, and be able to 
recover partial file fragments in case the connection goes away (when 
the user is unaware a download is in progress).

Something better than a vanilla apt-get is required.

-jim