Hi,

 

Need to have unattended upgrades stopped and not run uppon every boot.

What is the best way to do this?

 

 

Google has found the following:

https://www.garron.me/en/linux/turn-off-stop-ubuntu-automatic-update.html

 

Using your favorite editor open the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic and change:

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
To:

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "0";
That's it. Automatic update is now off.

or

https://askubuntu.com/questions/235278/how-can-i-stop-unattended-upgrades-from-rebooting-the-machine

sudo apt-get remove unattended-upgrades

 

Info:

https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

https://linoxide.com/ubuntu-how-to/enable-disable-unattended-upgrades-ubuntu-16-04/

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/71746/can-i-disable-unattended-debian-package-updates

@guidol

 

Thanks for the links, already did that though and seen that there is a bit of difference in armbian, there are two files in armbian for periodic config (02periodic and 02-periodic)

and since I know that some services might need to always be present (for any reason) in armbian, so I asked the question.

 

The question is actually, can I totally remove the unnatended upgrades package in armbian? or what is the best method in armbian for unattended upgrades Not to run?

 

 

PS.

Using Xenial, legacy

1 hour ago, Christos said:

can I totally remove the unnatended upgrades package in armbian

You can.

 

They have been recently reduced down to https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/common/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02-armbian-periodic#L4-L10 so you might just wait for update.

Thanks!

 

 

@Igor

 @guidol

Ooops, in the latest 5.51 it looks we cannot remove only unattended-upgrades, if doing so we also lose the most useful armbian-config amongst others (armbian-config python3-software-properties software-properties-common)

 

So, we cannot remove only unattended-upgrades?

If so, if we set to "0" all options in 02-armbian-periodic, is it the same and no unattended upgrade will ever happen?

 

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Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.51 user-built Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.113-rt143-sun8i
System load:   0.67 0.18 0.06   Up time:       0 min
Memory usage:  6 % of 997MB     IP:            192.168.1.42
CPU temp:      52°C
Usage of /:    24% of 3.6G

Last login: Tue Jul  3 13:48:59 2018

root@pisdr:~# apt-get remove unattended-upgrades
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  armbian-config python3-software-properties software-properties-common unattended-upgrades
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 721 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

 

1 minute ago, Christos said:

So, we cannot remove only unattended-upgrades?

If so, if we set to "0" all options in 02-armbian-periodic, is it the same and no unattended upgrade will ever happen?

 

Yes. I'll fix dependencies later on.