The suggestion to use `postpone` (by which i assume you mean `postpone --debian` ?) to trigger automatatic updates is very interesting, and led me to look into it further, only to discover it's been removed from Debian in Jessie onwards.
The message in the removal email mentions that dpkg triggers fulfil the same task now, have you ever tried/managed to use dpkg-triggers in the same way? It strikes me as likely being impossible as they're run by dpkg itself, which needs to exit before the update can begin...
At this stage it seems like a solution to do this would need to re-package `postpone` for >= Jessie (which isn't impossible, it just makes for one more thing to support).
have you ever tried/managed to use dpkg-triggers in the same way? It strikes me as likely being impossible as they're run by dpkg itself, which needs to exit before the update can begin...
No, I've not looked at this problem for ~6 years. APTonCD achieves some of the goals I had, so when that became popular I abandoned my attempts.
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The suggestion to use `postpone` (by which i assume you mean `postpone --debian` ?) to trigger automatatic updates is very interesting, and led me to look into it further, only to discover it's been removed from Debian in Jessie onwards.
The message in the removal email mentions that dpkg triggers fulfil the same task now, have you ever tried/managed to use dpkg-triggers in the same way? It strikes me as likely being impossible as they're run by dpkg itself, which needs to exit before the update can begin...
At this stage it seems like a solution to do this would need to re-package `postpone` for >= Jessie (which isn't impossible, it just makes for one more thing to support).
No, I've not looked at this problem for ~6 years. APTonCD achieves some of the goals I had, so when that became popular I abandoned my attempts.