how to check in a script if updates are available

Tue Mar 29 14:27:32 UTC 2022

On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 15:24, Lentes, Bernd
<bernd.lentes at helmholtz-muenchen.de> wrote:

> If updates are available i'd like to create a snapshot (BTRFS) before applying the updates.

The `snapper` tool from openSUSE does precisely this, and it's FOSS
and it runs on Ubuntu.

http://snapper.io/

I don't know if you are rolling your own, but this may make it easier.

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