Re: Only use security-updates?
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 10:53:48PM +0100, Alexander Fitterling wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 05:13:34PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> > Sarge doesn't get security updates.
>
> (...)
>
> > Sure, but you'll out on other (non-security) bugfixes that might come
> > down. Assuming you mean stable, anyway.
>
> I see! I assume the security in sarge is handled with recent updates
> from testing repository.
Yes, although they're delayed relative to unstable. Also see:
http://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing
> If stable gets a new release, say ..r3 would the security line in
> /apt/sources.list still be enough?
It should get you all the security updates, yes; but I think it's a bad
idea, because not all stable updates are security updates (other updates
are rare, but they do happen to fix major brokenness), and it can only
confuse things because the system isn't really meant to be used this
way.
I suggest leaving the sources.list line for stable proper there. At
worst you have to download stable's Packages files once each time a new
stable point release is made.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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