[PLUG] apt-get update question

[Paul Heinlein]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Richard C. Steffens wrote:

> Is apt-get update something that needs to be run frequently?

I run 'testing' on my Debian host, so package updates are a way of 
life for me :-). I've got a script /etc/cron.daily/aptmaint that runs 
every morning. It updates the package index files and then reports on 
what packages need upgrading.

#!/bin/sh
#
# nightly cronjob to update package lists and provide a report on 
# which packages need updating
#
AG='/usr/bin/apt-get'

if test ! -x "$AG"; then
   echo "Can't find executable $AG" > /dev/stderr
   exit 1
fi

$AG update >/dev/null 2>&1 && sync && $AG -s upgrade && exit 0

# if we get this far, something's amiss
echo "apt-get operation failed ... somewhere" > /dev/stderr
exit 1

### eof

-- Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>