On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:56:09AM +0200, Frédéric PICA wrote:
> Ok, so apt-get update/upgrade -y in a cron job will work but what about my
> first question ?
Don't do this :( The pace of change in Debian stable is very slow: as
you correctly say, fixes are back ported and so on but it is still
You want to use a combination of these commands at different times:
apt-get -qq update # necessary, no email desired
apt-get -dy upgrade # download minor updates, do not install, send
email
apt-get -yupgrade # install minor updates, send email
apt-get -qqdy dist-upgrade #
The security team looks at the diffs for the patch to version 2 of the
software, identifies the parts that fix the bug in version 1 and manually
back port the bug fix to version 1. We end up with a Debian specific version
that doesn¹t introduce new dependencies or features. This works with great
su
Ok, so apt-get update/upgrade -y in a cron job will work but what about my
first question ?
Lets say debian stable has foo-1.0 package.
I does apt-get upgrade -y in my cron job and one day I have foo-1.0 updated
to foo-1.0.1 for bugfix reason.
Meanwhile the author of foo release version 2, debian
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070607 16:21]:
> > >I saw in 'man apt-get' that using apt-get upgrade does not install new
> > >packages or remove an already installed package.
> > >Is it possible that I did'nt get the latest security fixes using
> > >apt-get upgade in a cron job ?
>
> afa
* Frédéric PICA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your answer,
>
> So I need to do an apt-get dist-upgrade in my cron job to be sure to always
> have the latest security fixes ?
> What's the risk to have a needed package uninstalled by that way ?
You could use the package cron-apt for this,
Frédéric PICA wrote:
Thanks for your answer,
So I need to do an apt-get dist-upgrade in my cron job to be sure to
always have the latest security fixes ?
What's the risk to have a needed package uninstalled by that way ?
My goal is to have the latest security fixes for a server, but I have
t
Thanks for your answer,
So I need to do an apt-get dist-upgrade in my cron job to be sure to always
have the latest security fixes ?
What's the risk to have a needed package uninstalled by that way ?
My goal is to have the latest security fixes for a server, but I have to be
sure that dist-upgra
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:14:53PM +0300, Riku Valli wrote:
> Fr??d??ric PICA wrote:
> >Greets,
> >
> >I saw in 'man apt-get' that using apt-get upgrade does not install new
> >packages or remove an already installed package.
> >Is it possible that I did'nt get the latest security fixes using
> >
Frédéric PICA wrote:
Greets,
I saw in 'man apt-get' that using apt-get upgrade does not install new
packages or remove an already installed package.
Is it possible that I did'nt get the latest security fixes using
apt-get upgade in a cron job ?
I think particularly about security fixes that ca
Greets,
I saw in 'man apt-get' that using apt-get upgrade does not install new
packages or remove an already installed package.
Is it possible that I did'nt get the latest security fixes using apt-get
upgade in a cron job ?
I think particularly about security fixes that can't be retro-ported to t
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