On my own computer, I have been used to run apt-get upgrade directly for years.

But few days ago I have a chance to admin a ubuntu server. I guess my old habit is bad.

Should/how I update security updates only to minimize dependence issus?

And how can I confirm the source is trustworthy(by SHA or other hash), keep the middleman attack away?

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Ubuntu repositories are GnuPG-signed; apt-get will verify the signature each time you do an 'update'. – sendmoreinfo Dec 17 '11 at 23:10
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