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cron-apt for Debian
-------------------
Edit /etc/cron-apt/config
and add rules to
/etc/cron-apt/action.d
You can also add extra configuration for each action (same syntax as
/etc/cron-apt/config) by naming the file /etc/cron-apt/config.d/<actionname>.
The configuration from one action is kept to the next action as well.
The configuration in /etc/cron-apt/config (and config.d/<actionname> consist
of a couple of variables that you can set. They are documented in the config
file itself. The configuration files will always allow any POSIX /bin/sh
compatible syntax so you can use them for hooks and simlar things as well as
simply setting variables.
If you want this tool to be run even if you do not have it up at
04 in the morning you can create a symbolic link from /etc/cron.daily/cron-apt
to /usr/sbin/cron-apt. It will then be run every day (even if the computer is
not on at that time). Similar things can be done for each week, and so on.
You have to have anacron installed for this to work. If not, daily scripts
run 6 AM by crond.
ln -s /usr/sbin/cron-apt /etc/cron.daily/cron-apt
Observe that it is not always a good thing to update package information
and download files when the computer is started. This is especially true
if you do not have a good Internet connection.
You also need to disable the normal cron.d/cron-apt file if you do not want
it to be run twice.
Alternate sources.list file
---------------------------
If you just want to update security related things you can always use an
alternate sources.list files by giving this extra information to the OPTIONS
variable in the configuration file.
OPTIONS="-q -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list"
Alternate APT main configuration
--------------------------------
There are cases when you need the APT configuration for use with cron-apt to
differ substantially from your standard configuration. For example, cron-apt
will not work with the default configuration of APT, when apt-listbugs is
installed, because this adds a hook that expects keyboard interactivity.
Unfortunately, the apt-tools do not accept Dir::Etc::Main and Dir::Etc::Parts
settings on the command-line. In order to use different paths for them, you
have to create another APT configuration file containing eg:
Dir::Etc::Main "cron.apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::Parts "cron.apt.conf.d";
Then uncomment the following line in your cron-apt configuration file and
point it to your newly created APT configuration file:
export APT_CONFIG=/etc/apt/cron.apt.paths
Development and documentation
-----------------------------
If you want more information about this software you can visit the homepage
at http://inguza.com/software/cron-apt/. You can find documentation,
development information and other things there.
License terms
-------------
Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com>
Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>
Copyright (C) 2004,2007 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
Copyright (C) 2006 Felix Palmen <fmp@palmen.homeip.net>
Copyright (C) 2004 Marc Sherman <msherman@projectile.ca>
Copyright (C) 2004 David Weinehall
Copyright (C) 2003 Sean Finney <seanius@seanius.net>
Copyright (C) 2002 Marcel Kolaja <marcel@solnet.cz>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program as the file COPYING; if not, write to the
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
MA 02110-1301 USA.
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