Query about 21.10 release notification

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, dem 19.10.2021 um 01:54 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
> On 18/10/2021, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Perhaps, someone should tell the update bots to stop doing it,
> > > then.
> > 
> > Curious - how did it force an update? Ive never seen that? Do you
> > mean
> > it did a update without your permission and then rebooted?
> 
> There are two ways that I have so far encountered.
> 
> The first, is the dreaded (and dreadful) automatic, unattended
> updates

this only applies critical security fixes for currently installed
packages, not any upgrades to a newer release of the OS ... and there
is no technical possibility it could do that on its own. 


>  by a bit of minor hacking

so you hacked around "a bit" in the package management of your system
and now it does not work as intended ? 


> leading to partial kernel upgrades

and after you did this "bit of hacking" your system now applies
"partial kernel upgrades" (which it obviously does not for anyone else)
? 

> 
>  I can hopefully be safe from forced
> updates.
> 

have you considered that your hackery might be somehow related to your
issues ? 

ciao
	oli
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