Re: How to get security updates, but not other packages?

From: Bob Proulx (bob_at_proulx.com)
Date: 09/13/05

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To: "J. Grant" <jg@jguk.org>

    J. Grant wrote:
    > [Please include my email address in any replies]
    >
    > >You want "apt-get upgrade". (Or "aptitude upgrade".)
    >
    > Great! I need 500MB of packages, going to leave it running over night :)

    Hmm... 500MB sounds like a lot for just security upgrades. However I
    have been keeping current all along and so may not have a good idea of
    the entire set size. But I am worried that you are really running
    Woody and this upgrade is the amount of data while you are now
    pointing to Sarge.

    I would verify that you are really at Sarge already and that these
    really are only security updates. As things download you can tell if
    they are coming from sarge/updates or not. If you pick a package in
    particular that it wants to upgrade and check you can tell where it
    wants to upgrade it from and what is where.

      apt-cache policy packagename

    It is somewhat concerning to me that there is such a large amount of
    upgrade. I fear you are doing a woody to sarge upgrade without
    realizing it. A good thing to do none the less. But not without
    knowing and actively thinking you want to do the upgrade. This is why
    many advocate to never say "stable" in the sources.list file but to
    always say explicitly "woody", "sarge", "etch", etcetera.

    Bob 

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