Hi Guys,
Over the weekend I applied system Updates to 1 of my Ubuntu 10.04 Xen VMs using the Cloudmin "Update Packages" button on the "List Managed Systems" area. This totally hosed the Virtualmin system (virtualmin-base was uninstalled along with Apache2). I later realized that the Updates I had applied to the UBUNTU system through Cloudmin were both the Security Updates and the Program Upgrades (*I am pretty sure the Program Upgrades were to blame).
Is it possible to configure Virtualmin/Cloudmin to breakout the updates in Cloudmin as "Security Updates" and "Program Upgrades" like Aptitude does? (Atleast for Ubuntu/Debian Systems?)
In my attached images, the highlighted updates link in Cloudmin are the 13 upgradeable packages shown in my Aptitude screen shot.
Hope you all had a great Father's day weekend,
~Jeremy
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Submitted by xtremeservices on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 14:53 Comment #1
Oops here is the Aptitude screen shot.
Submitted by JamieCameron on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 19:43 Comment #2
Do you happen to know which package causes virtualmin-base to get un-installed?
Showing security updates only would be a nice feature, but I don't know of any way to make the
apt-get
command list only security updates, or indicate which ones are which..Submitted by andreychek on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 19:52 Comment #3
Also, is it possible that someone ran the command "apt-get autoremove"?
The virtualmin-base package shouldn't be removed by updating any package, though we've occasionally seen the problem you're describing if someone were to run "apt-get autoremove" (which we don't recommend).
Submitted by xtremeservices on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 01:17 Comment #4
Hi Jamie and Eric,
The dpkg log shows a lot of half configured packages... I don't see what led to the virtualmin-base uninstall however. I attached the dpkg log for the cloudmin install time span, maybe something will jump out : ).
As far as a way to handle security only updates, here is an idea I just googled that might be worth trying out for Debian distros :
http://syslog.tv/2011/09/21/debianubuntu-upgrade-security-packages-only-...
Might be nice as a configurable option,
~Jeremy
Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 09:16 Comment #5
I had a look at that page, but the solution it suggests of creating a custom sources.list file isn't really applicable for use in Webmin. I looked for a way to make the
apt-show-versions
command include repository names in it's output, but it doesn't seem to have any option for this :-(Submitted by xtremeservices on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 11:50 Comment #6
Ok, no worries. It was just a pipe dream of mine : ).
This can be marked as fixed.
~Jeremy
Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 20:06 Comment #7
I'd like to do this (as Virtualmin does for YUM systems), but sadly APT just doesn't supply the needed information..