Hey. It seems that apt only gives a warning (and exit status 0) in case a section has been specified in sources.list, which doesn't exist. E.g. aptitde doesn't seem to even show that warning. Isn't that kind of a "security issue"? Imagine someone simply mistypes his deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable-security mian line and thus wouldn't see any updates. If updating the package lists (and perhps even upgrading) is handled automatically, this may be easily unnoticed. Cheers, Chris.