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mvo5 / unattended-upgrades

Automatic installation of security upgrades on apt based systems
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Add missing options to config files #301

Open HendrikVE opened 3 years ago

HendrikVE commented 3 years ago

Some options were described in the section "Supported Options Reference" in the README, but were not described in the config files for the different distributions leading to users miss out on these options when they take the default config file as a guide for available options.

Before I had a look at this repository I didn't even know these options existed, because I assumed the config file is "feature-complete". It wasn't, but I think it should be. It came to my attention, because my mail provider does not consider "root" as a valid "From" field and therefore I never received a mail on upgrades. But of course I did not know that "root" was the default because the option Unattended-Upgrade::Sender was missing in my config file (ubuntu).

Btw the option Unattended-Upgrade::MailReport was missing on my Ubuntu machine, instead I had the legacy option Unattended-Upgrade::MailOnlyOnError, even though MailReport is included in the config files in this repository and also handled by the version of /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade on my machine (Ubuntu 20.04.3). Is that just apt being a bit behind?

chovanecadam commented 4 months ago

I have just stumbled across this exact issue. I wish the example configuration file included all default options, or at least a link to this repository which contains all the configuration options.