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Re: Closed source & Secutiry (was: Re: Smooth wall - moredetailed) detailed)



Ilya Konstantinov wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:18:09AM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:
>
>>that bring me to a point I could not find a answer yet...
>>is there a system that will announce to me new versions of various packages
>>?
>>
>
>On Debian, you could see the latest packages available to you by
>issuing 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade -u'. Other distros may
>have similar systems, some for subscribtion and some are free.
>
I'll make that point even harsher.

If you run apt-get upgrade -u, your system will actually be upgraded.

If you only want to know whether there is an upgrade, run it from a cron 
job, and give it an option to not perform the actual download. This way 
you will get exactly what you want, for all (and only) the packages 
installed on your system.

            Sh.



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