[nzlug] Very simple gui for apt package upgrades

[Cliff Pratt]

Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Shane wrote:
>> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 18:09, Steven Ellis wrote:
>>
>>> You won't believe how much this confuses people because there is no gui.
>>>
>>> Ok the pitch is this is only for updates/upgrades. Typically to do
>>>
>>> apt-get update
>>> apt-get dist-upgrade
>>> <question> are you sure </question>
>>> <progress until complete/>
>>>
>>> It has to be so simple that the kind of use who won't update a windows
>>> box because it is too complex will feed comfortable.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>
>>
>> Why not
>> <pitch> It updates itself</pitch>
>>
>> vi /etc/cron.daily/upgrade.sh
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> apt-get update
>> apt-get upgrade
>>
> There's a number of problems with that. One is that now and then a 
> package will require input and that will break the process. The second 
> is that even if you don't hit that problem, if you go and look after a 
> few weeks you will find that packages will be 'held back'.
> 
I've just looked at cron-apt which appears to be a simple wrapper around 
apt. It doesn't seem to be much more advanced than the solution above.

Any comments? Any other package suggestions?

Cheers,

Cliff