Bug#890381: Why unattended updates are enabled by default?
Hi Mikko,
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been wondering why my sid laptop is sometimes spinning the fan and
> I've seen apt running in the background. I though that was only an
> update of the package index and not actual upgrades. Then I've lately had
> several odd system lockups on Gnome desktop running on wayland. And
> crashes of various applications. Then today I saw that unattended-updates
> were running dpkg automatically, which I have not enabled since this
> is sid/unstable. I traced this back to apt daily systemd timers.
>
> Why are these updates enabled by default?
The explanation is in the u-u NEWS file which was not shipped due to
wrong naming, but it will be present in next upload:
https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades/blob/master/debian/NEWS
>
> To me it does not make sense on sid/unstable to enable automatic updates
> by default. Even on stable I would expect that just installing some
> packages does not automatically enable installing updates which may
> break things on a running system which needs reboots and restart anyway
> to make the updates effective.
On stable u-u is already enabled, jut like in Ubuntu releases.
Please run:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades
to disable automatic updates if you don't want them to be installed.
>
> And yes, I've been on expensive mobile broadband when traveling lately
> and am a bit afraid of getting expensive bills in a few weeks...
I'm sorry for that, this bug tracks fixing this exact issue.
Cheers,
Balint
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Balint Reczey
Ubuntu & Debian Developer
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