Feature Request: update old packages only

[axet]

Hello!

During recent years I faced multiply system failures because of automatic updates. Some packages which got automatically updated had issues which prevent system to boot or upgrade (in kernel or systemd packages). Having option which allows update only old packages (updates pkg age) would solve those issues.

Can unattended-upgrades check how old update is and only update packages if they are older lets say than 30 days and ignore those updates which just got available?

[a-detiste]

You could mess upstream with aptly and cron job and let the leaf nodes untouched.

[SveDec]

Hi,

A configuration option to delay upgrades and only upgrade packages older than n days could indeed be very nice, to prevent potential undetected problems from being installed (for instance, I have in mind the 6.1.64-1 kernel problem that happened in December 2023).

Thanks