Package: apticron Version: 1.1.45 Severity: wishlist
Hi all, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz, the maintainer for the apticron package, requested I post this wishlist feature request. I had emailed him the following: [begin] Hi there, apticron is a neat tool, but it tells about all the packages. On some servers, we only want to know if there is a security update or something is urgency=high. How does one configure apticron to send emails only in those situations? Thanks in advance for your help, [end] His response: [begin] Hi Philip, If you keep only stable and security sources in your sources.list you'll get only security (ou very important) update notifications from stable release. Do you think you need something more complex? If so, please elaborate a bit and file a bug report in Debian bts. You can use reportbug tool for that. You can also do it by email (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting). Regards, [end] Hence this email. We have servers which need repositories in our /etc/apt/sources.list which do not have separate security and non-security components. So when apticron runs, it reports everything, both security and non-security, both low and high urgency. But with apticron, we only care about high urgency security updates. We'd like it to email us only for security urgency=high updates. Currently there is no way to configure apticron to do just that -- so in the end we have to run filters in gmail. We'd love it if such an option was implemented. Thank you in the advance for your help. - Phil -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers natty-updates APT policy: (500, 'natty-updates'), (500, 'natty-security'), (500, 'natty') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apticron depends on: ii apt 0.8.13.2ubuntu4.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20100314cvs-1 simple mail user agent ii cron 3.0pl1-116ubuntu1 process scheduling daemon ii debconf [debconf-2 1.5.36ubuntu4 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.16.0~ubuntu7.1 Debian package management system ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1ubuntu1 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages apticron recommends: ii apt-listchanges 2.85.6ubuntu1 package change history notificatio ii iproute 20100519-3 networking and traffic control too apticron suggests no packages. -- debconf information: apticron/notification: sys-ad...@armorgames.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
