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Not sure about this project, but Pi Hole (which is very similar and likely covered under your "stuff like this") has updating built in. Updating pihole is as s
by hnbear 4y ago
Not sure about this project, but Pi Hole (which is very similar and likely covered under your "stuff like this") has updating built in.
Updating pihole is as simple as:
pihole -up
Easy enough to cron up.
So, idiosyncratic in that it's not "apt update", but also pretty nice that it's all self-contained.
A lot of projects are also now available as docker containers, so you can just pull down the latest container version, currently my preference for home hosted things.
- layer8 4y ago> you can just pull down the latest container version Of course, but how do you automate this? Using Watchtower? Setup instructions never address this aspect. I get the impression that there’s no standard way to auto-update, and most people only update manually?
- alrlroipsp 4y agoUnless you want a randomly broken LAN, you should probably pay attention by manually updating things.
- neurostimulant 4y agoLike other mentioned, it's probably best not to autoupdate these kind of apps. For example, I run a pihole in an old raspberry pi 2b and the latest docker image update broke it and I had to revert. Imagine if you're in the middle of something important and suddenly your network is broken and you had to drop everything to fix it. Just do regular once a month docker pull and container restart instead.
- layer8 4y agoYeah, that’s what I suspected, and that is why I probably won’t start using such a setup. With distributions like Debian, you get curated and timely security updates without having to do anything manually for years.