On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:55:00PM -0700, Mike Fisk wrote: > There doesn't seem to be an automatic way to get all of the unstable > packages necessary to address reported security problems. You either > have to watch the security mailing lists and upgrade individual packages > yourself or do a full dist-upgrade every so often. As often as packages > get updated in unstable, that can be prohibitibely bandwidth and > time-consuming.
Set up a cron job to do the downloads while you sleep. Do the apt-get dist-upgrade while you're sitting in front of it, in case anything goes wrong, of course. This is much faster, since you are going off your hard drive instead of downloading. I do this: 55 5 * * sun root apt-get update && apt-get autoclean && apt-get -q -d -y -u dist-upgrade This uses -d, so it _will not_ do anything more than download. You have to use -y, but it is safe since you are using -d. I've been doing this for several months, and I haven't had any problems with it. It sends me a nice email detailing what got deleted and what is ready to get installed. If I'm busy that weekend and there weren't any security critical things (except for local-user stuff, which I don't bust my butt about since the only people who have accounts are my family, and they have physical access anyway. (err, also there's the fact that I trust them:) ) Happy hacking. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
