Bug#166772: apt: specify security updates only

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist

I would like to be able to configure apt-get in such a way that it only
takes update/upgrades from the security website and nothing else.

One way might be to specify a package site specifically on the command
line, overriding the /etc/apt/sources.list.
The other might be to take only the /etc/apt/sources.list matches on
security (probably not as good).

The problem is that I would like to be able to automate the processes of
doing security updates to a cronjob without updating everything on the
system in such an automated fashion.


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bilbo 2.4.18-k7 #1 Sun Apr 14 13:19:11 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2        1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library