[Pkg-aide-maintainers] cron-apt

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:55:37AM +0200, Tim Stoop wrote:
> What would be the cleanest way to catch the downloads that are being  
> done by the cron-apt package?
> 
> I'm getting things like:
> 
> added: /var/cache/apt/archives/findutils_4.2.28-2_i386.deb
> 
> I guess a full
> 
> !/var/cache/apt/archives/.*\.deb
> 
> would be a bit insecure...

31_aide_apt adds
!$ARCHIVESDIR/[-a-zA-Z0-9%\._+]+_(@@{ARCH}|all)\.deb$
if IGNORE_ARCHIVES is set from 31_local_apt_settings.

I generally consider it a feature to be reminded by aide as well that
there are updates pending. I usually set IGNORE_ARCHIVES only on
systems running unstable.

Greetings
Marc

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