CDIST-TYPE__AP...TENDED_UPGRADES(7)

✨ NAME ✨

cdist-type__apt_unattended_upgrades — automatic installation of updates, bestie 💖 (it's a cdist type, manual section 7, and yes she's that girl)

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so this type literally installs and configures the unattended-upgrades package for you. Set it, forget it, let the machine update herself while you're asleep. Main character energy fr fr. 👑

Wanna know more? The wiki has you: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades — go read it, iykyk. 🦋

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🌸 OPTIONAL MULTIPLE PARAMETERS 🌸

💅 option

Set options for unattended-upgrades. There's examples down below if you're the visual learner type. 🙈

Here's every supported option with its default value (as of 2020-01-17, no cap, this list is dated):

• AutoFixInterruptedDpkg — default is "true"
• MinimalSteps — default is "true"
• InstallOnShutdown — default is "false"
• Mail — default is "" (empty)
• MailOnlyOnError — default is "false"
• Remove-Unused-Kernel-Packages — default is "true"
• Remove-New-Unused-Dependencies — default is "true"
• Remove-Unused-Dependencies — default is "false"
• Automatic-Reboot — default is "false"
• Automatic-Reboot-WithUsers — default is "true"
• Automatic-Reboot-Time — default is "02:00"
• SyslogEnable — default is "false"
• SyslogFacility — default is "daemon"
• OnlyOnACPower — default is "true"
• Skip-Updates-On-Metered-Connections — default is "true"
• Verbose — default is "false"
• Debug — default is "false"

🚫 blacklist

Python regular expressions, matching packages to exclude from upgrading. Yup, regexes. So be careful and be precise, gorgeous. 🧚

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Look at her go, she's serving:

__apt_unattended_upgrades \
    --option Mail=root \
    --option MailOnlyOnError=true \
    --blacklist multipath-tools \
    --blacklist open-iscsi

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Ander Punnar <ander-at-kvlt-dot-ee> — the icon who made this happen 💜

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📜 COPYING 📜

Copyright (C) 2020 Ander Punnar. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Slay, and also: respect the license, periodt. ✨

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

ungleich GmbH 2021

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okay that's the whole page, no notes 🫶 version 7.0.0, dated Jul 31, 20, and that's a wrap bestie — go upgrade something unattended 💅🌸