Question about updates

[Rashkae]

On 08/26/2011 04:05 PM, Daniel Patrick Sullivan wrote:
> Hi, Ubuntu Users,
>
> Please forgive me if this is somewhat of a noob quesion but I googled
> pretty extensively and I can't seem to get a definitive answer on
> this.  So I am checking with the user community just to be use.
> Basically I have a Ubunutu 10.04 LTS server that I *only* want to
> apply security updates to.  Is this a generally "accepted" method to
> apply *only* security updates?
>
> 1) copy /etc/apt/sources.list to /etc/apt/security.sources.new, and
> remove all lines except "deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
> lucid-security main restricted universe multiverse"
> 2) sudo apt-get upgrade -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.new
>
Is this a one-time event, or something you want to do 
automatically/regularly.

If you intend to use this as your update policy going forward, then 
simply edit the sources.list file and comment out the lucid-updates 
repository.  (Leave the lucid-security repository uncommented, of course)

Don't forget to run apt-get update before you apt-get upgrade, either way.