unattended update-manager

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 02:13:59PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> I ran update-manager to  upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy, in January, and
> I had to stay in front of my computer for more than 3 hours, just to
> answer 8 to 10 questions about keeping config files or installing the new ones.
> Is there a way avoid that (for example, by setting a default answer)?

Well, you can reduce the time to something like 40 minutes by
pre-downloading the packages, say, overnight, and then running
update-manager interactively.

I do the pre-downloading by editing /etc/apt/sources.list as root,
replacing gutsy with hardy, and then running

  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only -y

I ran this command the night before the official Hardy release and got
1.2 gigs of debs at a rather decent speed.  After the release
update-manager needed to download only 600k extra.

> I think this should be available via a update-manager option.

That would be nice, yes.  Just show me a list of the config files I
should review at the very end (and perhaps email that list to
root at localhost -- that would be useful on a server).

Marius Gedminas
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