On Du, 02 nov 14, 00:57:45, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > Thanks. This is useful and solves my first question.
Oh, missed that one[1]. Aptitude, at least in interactive mode can do it, because it presents a "Security Updates" (or something like that) package group. One can just Shift-U on the group to update just those packages. For the commandline it should be possible to come up with a pattern that finds upgradeable packages from a certain archive (origin?). Then it's only a matter of substituting 'search' with 'install'[2]. See chapter 2 in the aptitude user's manual (package aptitude-doc-en). [1] maybe you shouldn't post unrelated questions in the same message? [2] APT tools usually don't have a 'upgrade-package [list]' command, because 'install' does it. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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