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Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?



on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:09:22AM +0000, Ekkehard Kraemer (ekraemer@pluto.camelot.de) wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> >     apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --download-only
> 
> If I run apt-get from inside dselect (with "U" in the main menu), then
> when I "S"elect packages the first time, all packages that are new will
> be displayed at the top of all packages, making it easy to select
> interesting ones.
> 
> When doing apt-get update from the command line, this does not seem to
> be so, i.e., dselect doesn't display the new packages at the top when I
> run it first time.

You may want to investigate 'capt', which replaces dselect.

> Can this be achieved somehow, so I can keep track of "new" packages
> better?

Re-run the 'update' selection inside dselect, which will update
dselect's archive from the apt cache.


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