MJ Ray wrote:
Oh, I thought I installed apt-listchanges, configured it (dpkg-reconfigure apt-listchanges # if you already configured it or have your debconf preferences set to auto-configure things) and now it runs and emails whenever apt installs things, automatically.
I think you're getting apt-listchanges mixe dup with something else (which I've come across but not used, and can't remember what it's called).
According to man apt-listchanges: apt-listchanges — Show new changelog entries from Debian package archives
There was no configuration on installation. However it does sound a useful component part of my "project", if I can work out how to use it :-)
we tend to install once and upgrade forever... one of the beauties of debian.
Yes, lots of small steps is better than the big major (and troublesome) upgrade steps of a certain alternative.
Mind you, I'm not sure how much I'm looking forward to upgrading my Ubuntu 6.06LTS installs to Ubuntu 8.04LTS. That's a pretty big step (although not as big as the XP->Vista 6 year jump). Maybe I'll wait until around June for that one...