On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 23:35 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, David Kalnischkies wrote: > I guess the nagios check shouldn't use 'apt-get upgrade', but that > > depends on what it is supposed to show (aka what its users expect) > > and > > what it actually uses (based on "critical updates" I guess it is > > using > > its own code, perhaps a binding…) but both I don't know hence > > reassigning. > I don't think so. The plugin is expected to run on all distributions > having > apt-get, apt is fairly new.Â
I don't think David implied it should use apt(8), did he? I think he rather meant e.g. to use apt-get dist-upgrade (though this could have other consequences for the check??) Also @David: Or is there any other, even more portable/reliable/ancient-versions- compatible way to determine from apt how many updates (normal/security) would be available & installed (when packages would also be added/removed to do that - of course, I don't think check_apt should warn me, if I explicitly pinned the version of a certain package down with apt_preferences, but it should if I another one wasn't pinned down and if that depends e.g. on one that I pinned down)? Cheers, Chris.
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