Listing held packages for which there are upgrades
Hi,
On etch when I did an 'aptitude upgrade' it would show
the packages on hold that would have been upgraded
but were held back. On lenny this no longer happens.
How do I get a list of those packages, and only those
packages, that would be upgraded if they were not on hold?
FYI I want this mostly because I have too many systems
to apply security updates to manually. So I've a cron
job that regularly does updates from the security team
repository. However I do not want critical packages,
e.g. the kernel, upgraded by an automatic process.
I put the packages I want to manually review on hold.
I rely on the output from the cron jobs to notify me
when there are updates available for such packages.
Unlike, say the security-announce email list, the
cron jobs keep emailing me until I apply the latest
upgrades. I can miss an email on occasion and not have
to worry about missing an irreplaceable message.
Thank you.
Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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