[plug] Debian Security Updates

[James Devenish]

In message <41647B8A.3020700 at tigris.org>
on Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:11:06AM +0800, Tim White wrote:
> I have got the Debian security servers added to my /etc/apt/sources.lst 
> and I'm not sure how to do a security update. e.g. update all packages 
> that have had a security fix released but no others.

Assuming you are running Debian woody, you can just do:

# apt-get update
# apt-get -u upgrade

The second step will give you an up-front list of all packages APT
believes need to be updated. So, you can perform your own sanity check.
Basically, the way it works is that the security updates have slightly
newer version numbers than the original packages and everything just
works itself out.