On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:45:04PM +0200, 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. > Try apt-get -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/foo/bar update > 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? > The package cron-apt does the job of apt-get update && apt-get -d upgrade each day and mails you the output. -- .''`. Jason Chambers <chambersj@thingy.org.uk> : :' : Registered linux user #271693 `. `'` `- http://www.debian.org/ - The Universal Operating System
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