unattended-upgrades pkg

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On Sun, 2020-03-01 at 18:35 -0500, Udvarias Ur wrote:
> Dear Colin,
> 
> Great idea.
> 
> If I knew that that was an option and how to do it, I'd have already 
> done it and not bothered the list.
> 
> On 2020-02-28 02:41, Colin Law wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 23:57 Udvarias Ur, <udvarias1 at gmail.com 
> > <mailto:udvarias1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Folks,
> > 
> >     I have a simple yes/no question about the unattended-upgrades
> > package.
> > 
> >     As I want to see exactly what is being downloaded to my system,
> >     I'd like
> >     to remove the unattended-upgrades package. It is designated
> >     'optional.'
> > 
> >     I've tried other ways of disabling it, to no avail.
> > Furthermore,
> >     when it
> >     is upgraded I get into, from my prospective, an overly involved
> >     configuration file issue.
> > 
> > 
> >     The question.
> > 
> >     If I remove it, will I be notified about the security upgrades
> > it
> >     used
> >     to install?
> > 
> > 
> > Why not just set it to notify but not install?
> > 
> > Colin
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Cant you just go into your "software and updates" settings, and set the
"when there are security updates" and  "when there are other updates"
to "display immediately", and not to "download and install
immediately"?
   For some reason I recall "unattended upgrades" not actually
downloading and installing anything by default, and that you need to
edit a config file for all of your updates (not just security) to be
upgraded without your knowing?

dps
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