12 of 6 updates are security updates

R Kimber richardkimber at btinternet.com
Fri Aug 14 12:37:29 UTC 2009


On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:48:35 +0200
Nils Kassube wrote:

> Andrew Farris wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 23:13 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > > Why? Anything you haven't seen before is a bug? More seriously:
> > > That is what you see when you login via SSH - doesn't look like a
> > > bug to me.
> >
> > SSH or a local Terminal...regardless, it's saying there's 6 updates,
> > and 12 of the updates (out of the total of 6) are security updates...
> 
> Ooops, sorry. Somehow I did read it the other way. I'll try to read more 
> carefully next time.
> 
> > I think it's safe to assume this is a bug :)
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> 
> Nils

Could it mean that 12 security updates are available, but since you
don't have all 12 packages installed, you can only update the 6 that you
have installed?

- Richard.
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