Re: Apt-get only security patches

[Marcel Weber <mmweber@ncpro.com>]

Rudolph van Graan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Probably a stupid question, but one I don't know the answer for. Is
> there any simple way of telling apt or dpkg to *only* download and
> install security patches instead of other changes to a release [thinking
> testing or unstable here]. For example on one of my "stable" machines,
> the following happens when I do apt-get upgrade -u:
[...]
> Ideas/suggestions?
>
> Regards,
>
> Rudolph

Hi Rudolph

This should do it:

Put another sources list file into any directory. For example 
/etc/apt/sources.security. This file contains just the following line:

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free


For updating pass apt-get the sources list it should use. In this 
example the above file.

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

This should do the job (except anyone would disagree ;-) )

Regards

Marcel