Re: Listing held packages for which there are upgrades
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On 06/08/09 18:13, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> 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.
'aptitude safe-upgrade' will upgrade safely, and will sometimes hold
back packages. 'aptitude dist-upgrade' will not. I think upgrade now
goes to safe-upgrade.
> 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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Many thanks
Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:646ED06A)
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