Re: Automatic dist-upgrade for security update
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 14:29, Jean-Michel Besnard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a way to notice the admin when a package has to be updated.
>
> I was thinking about a script that would apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade --simulate |mail root@foobar every hour if dist-upgrade --simulate
> had an output different than : 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
dselect update && apt-get -duy dist-upgrade
this tells apt to download the packages put up a list of the upgrades
and asume yes.
I have this in a nightly cron job which does this and a few other things
then mails me the output. If there were new packages, then I just open
up a root terminal and apt-get dist-upgrade and since all the packages
were downloaded durring the night it happily upgrades everything. It
has worked for me for quite a while. I also have an apt-history script
in there so that I can record what packages are changing on my system.
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