Ubuntu
apt package

update overwrites customized apt-daily.timer

Bug #1708930 reported by Alex Lewis
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 16.04.03 LTS
apt (1.2.24)

I customize /lib/systemd/system/apt-daily.timer on my public facing servers so they only update and reboot once a week, at an earlier time of day, to reduce downtime during a busy part of our day. The update this week overwrote the file with no notice or prompting that it was about to overwrite a customized file. This turned out badly as we had servers rebooting a couple days later at the worst time of the day.

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Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote :

You have to use drop in units or something in /etc, files in /lib are not supposed to be modified.

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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