Re: What about doing security updates automatically?

[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:38:43AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> I (or I'd be sure my fellow sysadmin) would appreciate a bit more 
> automation. Maybe really the best thing would be to prepare 
> everything needed for an upgrade (i.e. receive the security 
> announcement, parse it, see if it concerns an installed package on 
> the system, if yes fetch it and compare the checksum, and inform the 
> admin. The latter then only has to login, finish the install and 
> check if anything is broken. (And maybe if he doesn't react within a 
> day install it automatically anyway...)
> 

        Currently, the patched "tiger" (an old Unix security tool)
available in Debian does check installed packages versus Debian released
advisories (parsed automatically from the WML sources). 

        FYI

        Javi


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