Is it possible to have a new command be put with apt-get? My idea is "apt-get security-update" That way, whenever there is a security update, like one recently with Zope, you don't have to go to the Zope site and start over, or you don't have to go looking for the latest security fix software update. It's also good because you won't have to keep up with all the security advisories and it makes keeping a secure system up to date with the latest security fixes very easy, especially since there can be many of them at a time.
This answers the criticism that I've heard that Linux doesn't have a very good model for distributing security fixes to the end user. Sure security bugs can be found and fixed quickly, they say, but getting those fixes to the end user is the difficult part. Hopefully my suggestion addresses that. I originally sent this to the m68k list and they said that I should send this to the maintainer of apt. I read through some of the wishlist items and haven't seen anything like this, though it's already been demonstrated to me that I simply have to edit my /etc/apt/sources.list to include the debian security server security.debian.org. Perhaps the man pages could include this fact? Or when debian discusses security on their web pages they could say "We have a solution for getting security fixes to the end user easily, unlike other distributions." Thank you for all your efforts in making a great utility! Russell ____________________________________________________ _its_ (no apostrophe) means "the thing that it owns" _it's_ (with apostrophe) means "it is"
