Protoze mne nebavilo se kazdy den prihlasovat na svuj domaci server s Debianem a kontrolovat nove aktualizace, hledal jsem neco na zautomatizovani tohoto nudneho ukonu. Velmi se mi osvedcil program apticron.

Sam od sebe nic neinstaluje – zustava mi plna kontrola. V pripade dostupnych aktualizaci zasle e-mail na nastavenou adresu. V nem je nazev a IP adresa pocitace, pro ktery jsou aktualiace k dispozici, dale pak samotny seznam balicku a popis ke zmenam kazdeho. Nakonec je uveden prikaz, kterym se provede aktualizace.

Instalace se provede prikazem apt-get install apticron
jednoduche nastaveni se nachazi v souboru /etc/apticron/apticron.conf
Samozrejme musi fungovat posilani e-mailu z daneho PC – ja pouzivam postfix.

Takhle nejak vypada e-mail od apticronu:

apticron report [Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:50:39 +0200]
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apticron has detected that some packages need upgrading on:

       eu.vancl.eu
       [ 127.0.1.1 192.168.1.1 ]

The following packages are currently pending an upgrade:

       libaprutil1 1.2.12+dfsg-8+lenny4
       libapr1 1.2.12-5+lenny1
       libsvn1 1.5.1dfsg1-4
       subversion 1.5.1dfsg1-4

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Package Details:

Načítám soubory se změnami...
--- Změny v apr (libapr1) ---
apr (1.2.12-5+lenny1) stable-security; urgency=high

 * Fix CVE-2009-2412: overflow in pool allocations, where size alignment
   was taking place.

 -- Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>  Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:22:28 -0500

--- Změny v apr-util (libaprutil1) ---
apr-util (1.2.12+dfsg-8+lenny4) stable-security; urgency=high

 * CVE-2009-2412: Fix overflow in RMM allocations due to alignment.

 -- Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>  Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:27:58 -0500

--- Změny v subversion (libsvn1 subversion) ---
subversion (1.5.1dfsg1-4) stable-security; urgency=high

 * Fix CVE-2009-2411, heap overflows in svndiff stream parsing.

 -- Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>  Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:54:23 -0500

subversion (1.5.1dfsg1-3) stable; urgency=low

 * patches/commit-email2: New patch to fix mail header formatting in
   commit-email.pl hook.  (Closes: #508301, #532903)

 -- Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>  Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:39:13 -0500

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You can perform the upgrade by issuing the command:

       aptitude full-upgrade

as root on eu.vancl.eu
 -- apticron