what is this?

How to enable silent automatic updates for any repository?(http://askubuntu.com/q/87849/417607)

Procedure:

Follow the steps below:

1. Install unattended-upgrade sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades

2. Discover it works only for security updates from official repos. by default.

Problem:

To make it work for all repos, you need to add each source to the config file manually. This might become hassle each time you install a new software on your machine. It may even lead to duplicate or unwanted entries or just a mere waste of time!!!

Solution:

Run this simple code.

how to run this?

• Check repositories to add:

  
  $ python unattended_upgrades_repos.py
  Add repos:
  "Ubuntu:xenial";
  "LP-PPA-kubuntu-ppa-backports:xenial";
  "LP-PPA-tuxonice:xenial";
  "LP-PPA-webupd8team-sublime-text-3:xenial";

Skipping files due to not present origin or suite. Or origin being a url.: packagecloud.io_slacktechnologies_slack_debian_dists_jessie_InRelease tiliado.eu_nuvolaplayer_repository_deb_dists_xenial_InRelease

* Now edit `/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades` to include them:

// Automatically upgrade packages from these (origin:archive) pairs Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins { "${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-security"; "${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-updates"; "${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-proposed"; "${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-backports"; "Ubuntu:xenial"; "LP-PPA-kubuntu-ppa-backports:xenial"; "LP-PPA-tuxonice:xenial"; "LP-PPA-webupd8team-sublime-text-3:xenial"; }; .... ....

* Check to see if they are included:

$ sudo unattended-upgrade --dry-run --debug Initial blacklisted packages: Initial whitelisted packages: Starting unattended upgrades script Allowed origins are: ['o=Ubuntu,a=xenial-security', 'o=Ubuntu,a=xenial-updates', 'o=Ubuntu,a=xenial-proposed', 'o=Ubuntu,a=xenial-backports', 'o=Ubuntu,a=xenial', 'o=LP-PPA-kubuntu-ppa-backports,a=xenial', 'o=LP-PPA-tuxonice,a=xenial', 'o=LP-PPA-webupd8team-sublime-text-3,a=xenial'] pkgs that look like they should be upgraded: Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
fetch.run() result: 0 blacklist: [] whitelist: [] No packages found that can be upgraded unattended and no pending auto-removals