RE: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-08 Thread Rudolph van Graan
@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Apt-get only security patches On Wed, 7 May 2003 10:35:45 +0200, Rudolph van Graan wrote: ... 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

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-08 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Rudolph van Graan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What I would have like to see was something like this: [Please think of this in terms of stable or testing] apt-listchanges. It displays the new changelog entries from the debs before installing them, but has to download them first, so no

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-08 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Thursday, 2003-05-08 at 10:53:54 +0200, Rudolph van Graan wrote: What I would have like to see was something like this: [Please think of this in terms of stable or testing] Package Class apt Security

RE: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-08 Thread Rudolph van Graan
Hi, apt-listchanges. It displays the new changelog entries from the debs before installing them, but has to download them first, so no bandwidth saving. The only (and incomplete) other way I see is reading the DSAs, but this doesn't apply to testing. But if you run testing, you can't

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-08 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Thursday 08 May 2003 03:30 am, Rudolph van Graan wrote: Hi, Rolf Kutz wrote: apt-listchanges. It displays the new changelog entries from the debs before installing them, but has to download them first, so no bandwidth saving. This is almost exactly what I looked for - it removes

Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-07 Thread Rudolph van Graan
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

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-07 Thread Marcel Weber
Rudolph van Graan wrote: 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

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-07 Thread thing
Rudolph van Graan wrote: 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

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-07 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Wednesday, 2003-05-07 at 10:35:45 +0200, Rudolph van Graan wrote: The following packages will be upgraded kdewallpapers mime-support 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]

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-07 Thread Lorenzo Martignoni
* 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

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-07 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 7 May 2003, Rudolph van Graan wrote: 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]

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-07 Thread Stephen Gran
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:03:40AM -0400, Mike Dresser said: Actually, mime-support had a security fix not all that long ago. You should let that one go through. http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-292 I'm trying to picture how there could be a security hole in kdewallpapers, but yet

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-07 Thread Nick Boyce
On Wed, 7 May 2003 10:35:45 +0200, Rudolph van Graan wrote: ... 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