On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Jeremy Brake wrote: > 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.
Do a Google for "Gentoo glcu" - its a script that does all the updates and security checks for you. I have it run from cron on all my servers. -- -- [email protected] mailing list
