On 10/17/2014 10:18 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 17 oct 14, 20:20:29, Diogene Laerce wrote: >> >> Debian does have a specific tool to check if a system needs to be >> updated but many users will just want to manually check if any >> security updates are available for their system. " > ... >> So does anyone know what tool he does refer to ? > > There are several: apticron, cron-apt, unattended-upgrades and I see > update-notifier is being replaced with gnome-packagekit.
I was looking for a portable and simple way to notify the user
of necessary update. But update-manager is not in Jessy, apticron and
cron-apt a bit too complicated.. I guess I'm going to stick with a
"update && upgrade" script.
>> There are several: apticron, cron-apt, unattended-upgrades and I see
>> update-notifier is being replaced with gnome-packagekit.
>
> So the text should read: "Debian has several tools to check if ..." ?
>
:)
Thanks to all. :)
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Diogene Laerce
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