To make it easy I have added these 2 lines to my crontab 10 2 * * * /usr/bin/emerge --sync 2> /dev/null > /root/tmp/daily-emerge-sync.txt 50 2 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -ln 2> /dev/null | grep ' \[N\]'
Then every morning I get an email if there are packages with vulnerabilities. I can decide manually the priority. Because I dont want apache updating itself in the middle of the night... I do it manually, from my emailed list. On Tuesday 06 September 2005 02:53 pm, Jeremy Brake wrote: > Hey, > > Is there anything in Portage which will allow me to view security > updates, seperate from general version updates? > At the moment i have a 5am cron job which runs "emerge --sync && emerge > -upvD world" , and i just glance at it as soon as I i sit down at my pc > for the day. > The problem here is that I cant tell if updates (eg, at the moment it > wants to update openssh and apache2) are security patches, or just > general version upgrades. > > I know i can use "system" instead of "world" and omit the -D option, but > thats not targeting my issue exactly. Is there a way to see which > updates are security patches, without having to manually trawl through > webpages and changelogs? > > Jeremy -- [email protected] mailing list
