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The Linux Mint Update Manager
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Schedule on which days to do automatic updates #663

Closed enigma131 closed 3 years ago

enigma131 commented 3 years ago

Is it possible to have a feature I haven't see in other distros? For example, at week times , I don't care about updates because I'm at work, i don't apply them at evening. At the beginning of weekend , I apply manually all updates for past week. Is it possible to schedule this automaticly, by adding a new line in preferences, automatic update, selecting day + time of week. Quasi similar to #651 Thanks in advance. BR

clefebvre commented 3 years ago

I think it becomes overkill at that point. The UI is there to make it easy, not give as much granularity as the underlying systemd timer. This can be tuned precisely via cron and/or systemd timers already which are designed specifically for that.

enigma131 commented 3 years ago

Ok then, i will continue to apply updates manually every 1 or 2 weeks_ends. I haven't time to study cron alternative