[wellylug] debian q's

Alex wlug at viceconsulting.co.nz
Thu Mar 25 23:17:47 NZST 2004


> >b)
> >
> >is it possible to instruct apt-get to only get new packages from the
> >apt security mirror but not the regular packages?
> 

i mean when you type apt-get upgrade
does this get the newest packages off both security and the regular 
updates?

is there a way of telling apt-get upgrade to only get packages off 
security but NOT the regular packages.

eg, this is my sources.list

deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib 
deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates 

i want to run apt-get update against a source list that looks like 
this:

#deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main 
contrib

deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates 

ie force it to only update security and not the regular stable stuff

obviously i dont' want to manually edit sources.list everytime i just 
want to get security stuff...any thoughts?
-alex.




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