Re: Fwd: Security Installation Method
Am 10. Apr, 2019 schwätzte Cindy Sue Causey so:
moin moin,
On 4/10/19, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
Arun Vasudevan wrote:
Could you please help me to install the Security patches only to one of
my
Debian servers.
The usual method is:
sudo apt update
apt list --upgradable
# inspect the packages to make sure you want all of them. If
# not, don't proceed. You can install individual updates with
# sudo apt install PACKAGENAME
sudo apt upgrade
At the end of that, you will want to reboot if you installed a
new kernel.
This is a quick drive-by to wonder whether limiting the repositories
in /etc/apt/sources.list (before "apt upgrade") would additionally
help here, too?
This is essentially what I do.
I put security repos in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/security.list, then I use
only that for security updates.
sudo apt -o Dir::Etc::sourceparts=:: -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/security.list full-upgrade
ciao,
der.hans
Commenting the lines out instead of deleting is my chosen method of
operation just so I don't have to waste time tracking down how to put
what back in place *when* I change my mind. :)
Yes, I can't think of good examples, but I'm sure there are some to
show why everything should be updated instead of just security. :)
Cindy :)
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