how often do you update/upgrade

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• AdamM Member

  December 2016

  What do you think of a conjob that runs each day that simply does this

  apt-get -y update
  apt-get -y upgrade
  
• WSS Member

  December 2016

  make it -t unstable dist-upgrade
• Janevski Member

  December 2016

  I update usually if i install a new package from repo.

  I upgrade only if i must.

  I prefer clean new installs (from time to time) over upgrades, but still they have to be justified.
• varwww Veteran

  December 2016

  Cron daily. Sends an email to me about the updates.
• CUTA Member

  December 2016

  I received the notification from the server "2 Ubuntu package update(s) "
  sent by apticron as it supposed to do. meaning I could successfully test what I mentioned earlier.

  @Shigawire said:

  @CUTA said:

  @Shigawire said:
  You what? You guys do run apt-get upgrade via Cron? Doesn't that break everything you run once in a while?

  It says that on the console only the stable updates are used.

  After using this command which installs the "unattended-upgrades" package in the system to auto updates the packages.
  sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades

  Use this to configure "unattended-upgrades" package to instruct.
  sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades

  Then it says this implying only the stable updates are installed.
  

  I didn't test to see this works, because I started using my first vps a couple of days ago.

  Thanks for the insights!
• Neoon Community Contributor, Veteran

  December 2016 edited December 2016

  Auto upgrade can kill your Server in the worst case, better check for Updates, confirm its working and you can patch it.

  Because I am lazy, I did developed FirePatch:
  
  https://github.com/Ne00n/FirePatch

  Basically deploys a User with has permissions to run updates on your box and you can do it with a single click. Easy.