[KLUG Members] Package Manager Problems

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>>To do a system-wide update of all installed packages (notably, to
>>>catch up with all security updates):
>>>apt-get dist-upgrade
>>I do three things when I update:
>>dselect update ; dselect select ; apt-get dselect-upgrade
>What about someone who runs multiple Debian boxes?  It would seem 
>a waste of bandwidth to download the updates for all boxes.

If one has a squid box I imagine it will proxy the same as Windows Update or Red
Carpet, making subsequent updates blindingly fast.

>>>The security benefit is huge.
>>Absolutely. As long as I keep up on updates, I don't have known bugs
>>hanging around. Unstable has the security fixes in naturally, but all
>>such fixes are backported to testing and stable.
>What are the pros & cons of updating unattended in a cron job.

I'd trust my servers to autoupdate from RedHat or Debian or etc.... about as
much as I'd trust my NT/WinY2k/Xpee boxes to auto update from M$.