On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:53:56AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > The side-effect of that is that you are now listing only the source > package name, and not anymore the binary package names. But to do the > upgrade, the administrator of the machine has to select the binary > packages for upgrade, or, to check if the testing/sid version the > machine has is new enough, check the installed version of all binary > packages built from that source package.
I've often wished for an apt invocation which would select for upgrade all packages derived from a named source package, for selective security updates, but I've never really persued it. Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110106103713.gu4...@urchin.earth.li
