debian-updates
debian-updates is a simple script that sends an email or displays console messages if any relevant Debian security updates become available. It is ideal for running from cron.
| Licenses | GPL |
|---|---|
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases
- 09 Aug 2006 11:24
Changes: This release improves the handling of reporting available security fixes. It does this by matching both on the Debian source package names and the binary packages that were built from them. To keep up with the Debian project's security advisories, this release also handles advisories numbered above 1000.
- 28 Oct 2005 10:53
Changes: This release is much faster to execute with the addition of a local package cache. It also features additional levels of verbosity, which can be useful in investigating problems.
- 02 Jul 2005 07:53
Changes: The Debian Sarge release removes the use of "sections" from the package repositories. This update correctly copes with this.
- 01 Jul 2005 15:53
Changes: This release has been updated to work with the current stable release of Debian, codenamed 'Sarge'.
- 16 Nov 2004 06:38
Changes: This release updates the Debian-specific portion of the installation a lot, bringing it up to date with the most recent Debian standards version. More general changes have also been made to make the alert email messages more readable and to make the documentation more consistent.
