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

[Ekkehard Krämer <ekraemer@pluto.camelot.de>]

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:

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

I will do that. But there seem to be a lot of "dselect replacements" lately... is capt the
"official" replacement?

> > 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.

Sounds logical.

Thanks for the hint,
Ekkehard