Re: Distro for a server

[Jim Cheetham]

On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 06:56  pm, Mike Beattie wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:40:12PM +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
For Debian, I generally do half that job, with a
apt-get update && apt-get --simulate upgrade
I suppose you could do
apt-get update && apt-get --download-only upgrade
Any advice for improving on this invocation welcome :-)
# Filename: checkupdates.sh
# Purpose: automatically check for updates, and mail me when there are
#          some to attend to. Add to root's crontab with something 
like:
#
#   30  1   *  *  *     /root/bin/checkupdates.sh

Thanks for this script, Mike, always good to see other ways of setting 
things up.
Greg Bodnar sent me details of an interesting apt addon, apt-listbugs 
(and associated to that, reportbugs).

apt-listbugs hooks into apt-get, and before installing anything, looks 
up the Bug Tracking System and gives you details of the outstanding 
bugs, so you can decide whether or not to install.

As he says, particularly useful when tracking sid/unstable.

I would have looked at it in detail, but I'd just updated my machine 
before receiving his email, so I didn't have any changes to install ... 
situation will probably have changed by tomorrow :-)

-jim