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RE: Apt-get only security patches



Hi,

> apt-listchanges. It displays the new changelog
> entries from the debs before installing them, but
> has to download them first, so no bandwidth
> saving.
> 
> The only (and incomplete) other way I see is
> reading the DSAs, but this doesn't apply to
> testing. But if you run testing, you can't rely on
> the security team anyway.

This is almost exactly what I looked for - it removes the "blindly
trusting apt-get" that was my problem in the first place. At lease I can
now decide if the change warrants installation to my machine. Strange
thing is that I haven't seen this package before.

Thanks Rolf!

R



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