Debian Project adds Security Support for AMD64
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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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