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I had a realization today (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 years ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So I have had mixed results with unattended upgrades on Debian based distros. It sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. It turns out that sometimes you need to enable it though dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades

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[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Moved to the countryside and stopped using computers? Or why don't you need to worry about automatic updates? Are you the boss and other people do the worrying? Or do you use one of those immutable distros and now worry in a different way?

[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

well, with stuff like this i meant dpkg-reconfigure, since i switched to nixos where configuring and setting up basically means adding/editing a couple of lines in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix. For automatic system updates for example, i just had to add: system.autoUpgrade.enable = true; and done. Nicest way to configure and manage a system i've experienced yet.

[–] WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't all these edits create huge snapshots or what is called in nixos ?

[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

not really an issue with a few more lines of configuration

nix.gc = {
    automatic = true;
    dates = "weekly";
    options = "--delete-older-than 30d";
};

[–] WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Nice!