Re: How (un)safe would Debian be when only using the security.debian.org repository?
Dnia 2013-11-10, nie o godzinie 19:50 +0000, adrelanos pisze:
> Hi!
>
> How (un)safe would it be...? When using Debian while...
>
> Not using:
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
>
> Only using:
> deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
>
> Does that change when using testing instead of stable? I.e...
>
> Not using:
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free
>
> Only using:
> deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free
>
> Or the same question in other words: are sometimes updates fixing
> security issues released though repositories other than the security
> repository?
>
> Why would someone interested in doing that? Getting fewer updates,
> saving bandwidth, time and system load.
>
> Cheers,
> adrelanos
>
>
Missing dependencies can break upgrade. For ex. one package from
security-update can depend on other package, so it will not be
installed. Unless You install it by hand.
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