l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > 7 juil. 2020 à 09:23 de v...@sibptus.ru: > > > After reading your replies and the Debian security advisories, I made up > > my mind that I probably just want to now if new versions of packages are > > available in the repos. Perhaps it's the best thing I can do about > > vulnerabilities. > > > > So I wrote the following UserParameter for the Zabbix agent, and I think > > I've found it useful already: > > > > # Number of upgradable packages > > UserParameter=packages.upgradeable,if [ -x /usr/bin/apt-get ] ; then > > /usr/bin/apt-get upgrade -s | grep -c '^Inst' ; elif [ -x /usr/bin/yum ] ; > > then /usr/bin/yum check-update | grep -c 'updates$'; else echo "1" ; fi > > > > It does not require any extra utilities to estimate the number of > > upgradeable packages. > > > Regarding APT, don't forget first to do: > apt update > ...otherwise you won't get so many upgrades available ;)
This already happens automatically, from apt.systemd.daily I think. > Why not just counting results of: > apt list --upgradable > or > apt list --upgradeable > ? "WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts." So I chose to exercise caution. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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