On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:18:29AM +0530 or thereabouts, Rajkumar S wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to write a program that will make a web page with a list of all
> packages that needs to be updated on a particular debian box. I do
> apt-get update every night from cron, and wants to have access to the
> apt-get -u upgrade from a web page, for all my servers, in a single
> page. I am lazy and do not want to ssh into every one of them looking
> for upgrades and certainly do not want to upgrade automatically or miss
> an important upgrade.
>
> I did not find any program that does this, so decided to roll my own.
> Looking for programing info about apt, I found libapt-pkg-perl. But no
> docs about it.
Webmin will do this with the packages module installed. I actually got
webmin from the source, and compiled it. I started doing this when using
Woody, because the Woody version wasn't as up-to-date as I personally
liked. Why re-invent the wheel, when this functionality already exists?
Unless of course it's an intellectual exercise, that I can understand.
:)
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Steve
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