Re: [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates

[Michael Irey <michael@irey.org>]

To make it easy I have added these 2 lines to my crontab

10 2 * * * /usr/bin/emerge --sync 2> /dev/null 
> /root/tmp/daily-emerge-sync.txt
50 2 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -ln 2> /dev/null | grep ' \[N\]'

Then every morning I get an email if there are packages with vulnerabilities.

I can decide manually the priority.  Because I dont want apache updating 
itself in the middle of the night... I do it manually, from my emailed list.


On Tuesday 06 September 2005 02:53 pm, Jeremy Brake wrote:
> Hey,
>
> 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.
>
> I know i can use "system" instead of "world" and omit the -D option, but
> thats not targeting my issue exactly. Is there a way to see which
> updates are security patches, without having to manually trawl through
> webpages and changelogs?
>
> Jeremy
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