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by parfe 3351 days ago
http://man.openbsd.org/syspatch.8

Thanks for highlighting this. For me, OpenBSD releases needed so few fixes that keeping the system up to date wrapped around, and become more of a hassle to deal with! I'd get an email and have to manually rebuild something. Watching yet another flood of compiler output started feeling like a huge waste of time, despite only happening once every month or two.

For personal use, on debian I set a cron job and forget it. This utility hits the sweet spot to get me running OpenBSD again.
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adamrt 3351 days ago
You may already be familiar with but just in case: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

You can specify the types of updates to auto install (ie I use security updates only automatically).

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currysausage 3351 days ago
I keep running into a weird issue where my Debian servers won't shut down ("A start job is running for Unattended Upgrades") when I enable unattended upgrades as described at [1]. It is especially weird since my Debian systems are otherwise pretty bare-bones, yet the issue occurs on several of them. The solutions listed on Stack Exchange [2] seem rather hacky.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades#automatic_call_vi...

[2] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/293804/debian-a-star...

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voltagex_ 3351 days ago
That's particularly nasty (and an aspect of systemd that I really don't like).

I'm not sure this has been reported before / correctly:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837155 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719597

Maybe give the maintainers a prod with a link to that thread?

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