A formula to configure and manage update, upgrade, and dist-upgrade within apt.

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If you want to use this formula, please pay attention to the FORMULA file and/or git tag, which contains the currently released version. This formula is versioned according to Semantic Versioning.

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Runs apt-get -y dist-upgrade.

Runs apt-get -y update.

Runs apt-get -y upgrade.

Allows you to configure and manage repositories from pillar. Check pillar.example to see possible values. If used and no repositories are provided, sane default values from map.jinja are used.

Check https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList for an explanation about the resulting files structure.

Allows you to manage apt configuration from pillar. Check pillar.example to see possible values.

Check https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration#apt.conf and man 5 apt.conf for an explanation about the resulting files structure.

Allows you to configure and manage apt's preferences from pillar. Check pillar.example to see possible values.

Check https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration#apt_preferences_.28APT_pinning.29 and man 5 apt_preferences for an explanation about the resulting files structure.

Installs python-software-properties ($ /usr/bin/apt-add-repository ppa:user/repository).

Installs and configures unattended-upgrades

Installs apt-transport-debtorrent.

Installs apt-transport-https. Note that `apt-transport-https` has been deprecated since Debian 9 and it's now a dummy package

Linux testing is done with kitchen-salt.

• Ruby
• Docker

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install
$ bin/kitchen test [platform]

Where [platform] is the platform name defined in kitchen.yml, e.g. debian-9-2019-2-py3.

Creates the docker instance and runs the apt main state, ready for testing.

Runs the inspec tests on the actual instance.

Removes the docker instance.

Runs all of the stages above in one go: i.e. destroy + converge + verify + destroy.

Gives you SSH access to the instance for manual testing.