[Fwd: Debian Project adds Security Support for AMD64]
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> From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
> To: Debian News Channel <debian-news@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Debian Project adds Security Support for AMD64
> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:16:48 +0200
>
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> The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/
> Debian adds Security Support for AMD64 press@debian.org
> August 11th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050811
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>
> Debian Project adds Security Support for AMD64
>
> The Debian project adds security support for the stable amd64
> distribution. This port is not yet part of the Debian archive, but it
> will be included in unstable/testing soon and users already benefit
> from security updates distributed via security.debian.org.
>
> A special advisory will be released soon by the security team to cover
> newly built amd64 packages for all security updates since the release
> of sarge. These packages will replace already existing files in the
> proposed-updates directory in the amd64 archive.
>
> Because the project has released version 3.1 (codename: sarge) of its
> distribution without the amd64 port due to technical reasons, the
> porters have released their packages on a different server with only
> minimal differences to the Debian 3.1 archive. This port will be
> included in the unstable and testing distribution soon.
>
> As a first step to adding full support for the amd64 port the
> ftpmasters have added this architecture to security.debian.org and
> connected a new build daemon to the archive. Future security
> advisories will therefore list 12 architectures for the sarge release
> and users of this port will be able to use the regular source for
> security updates as well.
>
>
> Future Plans for full AMD64 Support
>
> Several issues have to be resolved before the amd64 port can be fully
> included. Most importantly the ftpmaster service needs to be moved to
> its final destination, as its former hosting offer has been terminated
> and it is now hosted in a temporary location. A detailed list of
> things to do follows:
>
> 1. Add security support
> 2. Move ftpmaster to its final location
> 3. Implement the archive split
> 4. Add amd64 architecture
> 5. Rebuild the archive with regards to amd64
> 6. Eventually have full support for amd64
>
>
> Resources for the AMD64 Port
>
> Security Updates
> deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main
>
> CD and DVD Images
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/
>
> AMD64 Packages
> deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian main
>
> AMD64 Mirror List
> http://amd64.debian.net/README.mirrors.html
>
> Differences to Debian 3.1
> http://amd64.debian.net/docs/package_changes.txt
>
>
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