On 18.06.15 19:20, Chris Samuel wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 07:20:56 PM Erik Christiansen wrote:
I have to admit that my recent debian 7.8.0 install is piling up notifications of recommended package upgrades, which I ignore because it doesn't provide a list of them I can aim apt at.
Isn't that what "apt-get dist-upgrade" is for?
Yes, but as mentioned in the post, I refuse to click on a surrender icon, to buy a pig in a poke.
If you are really serious about checking things then you can install apt-listchanges and set:
confirm=1
in /etc/apt/listchanges.conf and then apt will download the changeslogs and ask you to confirm whether you wish to apply them before proceeding. If you say 'n' then it will abort.
Done. Thanks, Chris. Mind you, that merely listed maybe sixty packages, and provided one confirmation check, as it does on any large install, even with confirm=0. Perhaps there's a difference in behaviour on one small package, which otherwise is just slipped in?
Best of luck,
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