So I have had mixed results with unattended upgrades on Debian based distros. It sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. It turns out that sometimes you need to enable it though dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades

Problem solved

  • igorlogiusEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    well, with stuff like this i meant dpkg-reconfigure, since i switched to nixos where configuring and setting up basically means adding/editing a couple of lines in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix. For automatic system updates for example, i just had to add: system.autoUpgrade.enable = true; and done. Nicest way to configure and manage a system i’ve experienced yet.

    • WeAreAllOne
      2•1 year ago

      Don’t all these edits create huge snapshots or what is called in nixos ?

      • igorlogiusEnglish
        11•1 year ago

        not really an issue with a few more lines of configuration

        nix.gc = {
    automatic = true;
    dates = "weekly";
    options = "--delete-older-than 30d";
};