distributing package updates

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
Tue Nov 2 11:02:55 CET 2004


>>>>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:24:34 -0400, John Paul Lorenti <jpl31 at columbia.edu> said:

    >     How do those of you that installed a sizable number of Debian boxes 
    > manage your package updates? I'm trying to figure out how to get around 
    > apt-get needing you to sit there and answer the same questions for each 
    > package on each box in a group of identically configured machines.

One simple method is to use these three commands on every
computer. You will see no more questions.

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
-- 
regards Thomas



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