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That's one nice thing about debian. For home servers I can setup auto updates once and forget about it till the next debian version is released. It will auto in
by DA87E80D629 2y ago
That's one nice thing about debian. For home servers I can setup auto updates once and forget about it till the next debian version is released. It will auto install security updates, reboot if necessary.
- sulandor 2y agoit's a tradeoff between fear that an update will break it and fear that a adversary will break it. highly depends on the circumstances if/when auto-updates make sense, but once you have seen uptime in the decades range, most don't want to go back to ephemeral systems.
- karmarepellent 2y agoI have never seen a Debian system break due to auto-updates when they only subscribe to the common main, contrib and even non-free Debian repositories. They are incredibly stable and robust. However one might want to use apt preferences/version pinning if they also use external non-debian repositories to e.g. install a newer version of PHP. Since some repositories keep different major versions in the same repository, an auto-update might otherwise install a version that causes an application to break. That being said, most systems can probably get away with auto-updates and a little apt preference configuration and call it a day.
- DA87E80D629 2y agoI never had a debian installation break from automated security updates.
- DA87E80D629 2y agoYou should never have auto updates on a production server but for home servers and desktops they are vital.
- sulandor 2y agosomewhere the line got blurry