* Rudolph van Graan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > Probably a stupid question, but one I don't know the answer for. Is > there any simple way of telling apt or dpkg to *only* download and > install security patches instead of other changes to a release [thinking > testing or unstable here]. For example on one of my "stable" machines, > the following happens when I do apt-get upgrade -u: > > The following packages will be upgraded > kdewallpapers mime-support > 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/1030kB of archives. After unpacking 105kB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > Obviously neither is of real security importance, but will be updated > nevertheless. [I don't want to remove the standard stable source from > sources.list]
I'd do: # apt-get -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security_updates.list -o Dir::State::Lists=/var/lib/xxxxxxx/lists/ update and then # apt-get -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security_updates.list -o Dir::State::Lists=/var/lib/xxxxxxx/lists/ upgrade -- lorenzo
