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From: Nils Toedtmann <nils.toedtmann@demandlogic.co.uk>
Subject: [alpine-user] How to find out whether an Alpine installation has pending security
 updates
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:26:37 +0000
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Hi *

How can I find out (in a shell/scriptable) whether there are security
updates pending for an Alpine host/container?

I am looking for the Alpine equivalent to e.g. Ubuntu's
update-notifier-common:

    /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check 2>&1 | cut -d ';' -f 2

Does Alpine actually distinguish between security and non-security updates?


Are security advisories/notices for Alpine published? The RedMine Atom
feed is already helpful, but I am after something more simple, that
basically says

   "If you run openssh on Alpine 3.2, 3.3 or 3.4, upgrade it to >= 7.4"


Kind regards  /nils


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