[clug] monitoring number of updates available on debian/ubuntu
Carlo Hamalainen
carlo.hamalainen at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 19:05:00 MDT 2010
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:58 PM, jeff <jeffm at ghostgun.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a means to tell how many packages, if any, are available to
> be installed on a debian based system.
Just wanted to add to this thread a one liner from my bashrc which is
somewhat relevant:
alias aptitudesecurityupdates='sudo aptitude safe-upgrade -t
`lsb_release -cs`-security'
This installs just security updates. I try to avoid upgrading anything
unnecessary on my production systems.
Cheers,
--
Carlo Hamalainen
http://carlo-hamalainen.net
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