Check for / notify about security updates?

pulb · 2016-09-27 20:41:50

Is there something like checkupdates that lists updated packages, but only those that are security relevant?

Yes, it is!
I wrote a little wrapper script for checkupdates [1] that does exactly that.
If you want to get notifications (at least in GNOME 3), help me to convince the author of the arch-update to integrate it in his gnome-shell extension [2].
Patches/pull requests welcome.

[1] https://github.com/pulb/check-security-updates
[2] https://github.com/RaphaelRochet/arch-update/issues/58

Last edited by pulb (2016-09-27 20:49:57)

atomicbeef · 2016-09-27 21:28:04

Keep in mind that partial upgrades are unsupported and you should always run

pacman -Syu

for updates to packages.

pulb · 2016-09-27 21:31:39

@atomicbeef: True. Though this script does not run any updates, it just lists security relevant packages so you know if you should update your system (by running the command you suggested).

R00KIE · 2016-09-27 22:07:25

I'd say that most probably you want to run 'pacman -Syu' regularly, if anything stops working the first thing people will tell you to do is a full system update, and besides security updates newer package versions may bring enhancements and stability updates (and sometimes new bugs features).

karol · 2016-09-29 11:55:06

Do you mean something like https://github.com/ilpianista/arch-audit ?

pulb · 2016-09-29 17:05:43

@karol: yes, this is actually similar. The difference being that check-security-updates
- uses the checkupdate output format (so it works with tools like arch-update which expect this format)
- only lists updated packages that are actually available for download
- queries the Arch Security mailing list instead of the wiki

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Check for / notify about security updates?

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