Raspbian Lite updates

[swill453]

Last year I installed Raspbian Lite on my Raspberry Pi. Since then I've occasionally tried to update it, but it never finds anything to do. Is this normal?

Does it possibly find and install updates itself without my intervention? Or is it some kind of "stable" release that won't be updated?

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Linux raspberrypi 4.19.66+ #1253 Thu Aug 15 11:37:30 BST 2019 armv6l

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian stretch InRelease [25.4 kB]
Get:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian stretch InRelease [15.0 kB]
Get:3 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf Packages [11.7 MB]
Fetched 11.7 MB in 34s (344 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


Scott.

[ReformedCharacter]

Last year I installed Raspbian Lite on my Raspberry Pi. Since then I've occasionally tried to update it, but it never finds anything to do. Is this normal?

Does it possibly find and install updates itself without my intervention? Or is it some kind of "stable" release that won't be updated?

Scott.

By coincidence I updated my early model Pi yesterday. You're following the correct procedure to get updates I believe.

This thread may be of interest:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... p?t=237920

RC

[swill453]

Following up on my own post:

It seems the OS (Raspbian Lite) does its own regular, unattended updates. In /var/log/apt there are various history.log files with content like

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Start-Date: 2019-12-22  06:30:19
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: libsasl2-modules-db:armhf (2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-3, 2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-3+deb9u1), libsasl2-2:armhf (2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-3, 2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-3+deb9u1), libsasl2-modules:armhf (2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-3, 2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-3+deb9u1)
End-Date: 2019-12-22  06:30:23

I guess if I was concerned about it I could find out what initiates it (cron or whatever), but I'm content that I've at least found an explanation.

Scott.

[PhaseThree]

There is a package which does this. (apt-get install unattended-upgrades)
Sounds like it may be active on your device.
Details here :- https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades