Re: More than one /etc/apt/sources.list possible?

[Erik Rask <erik@strakt.com>]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Pål Dahle wrote:

> Yo,
> 
> I would like my system to inform me whenever there are 
> security related updates available. Setting up
> 
> apt-get update --source /etc/apt/sources.list.security
> 
> as a daily cron job was my initial thought. Unfortunately,
> specifying an alternative source list does not seem to be 
> an option to apt-get.
> 
> I guess I could have two different sources.lists and have 
> the sources.list created as a sym link that is moved before 
> and after the cron job is run. This, however, does not sound 
> as an appealing solution to me.
> 
> Anyone got a better solution?
> 

try:
apt-get -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/sources.list.security update

Cheers
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Erik Rask, systems administrator @ AB Strakt
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