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Re: Updating Debian in a very secure way



* Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) [040224 15:06]:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:20:23PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > * Moritz Beller (momo.beller.No-Spam@t-online.de) [040224 14:12]:
> > > Yes, but not only! In the former case (upgrading debian distribution) I
> > > only want to use secure updates (that means updates which are believed
> > > to work very stable and fully tested or at least something like this). I
> > > prefer not getting the very latest version instead of a buggy test one.
> > 
> > You describe:
> > 
> > # Security updates for "stable"
> > deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
> > deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free
> 
> Drop the second of those. (It has more or less no effect at the moment;
> it probably will as we run up to releasing sarge, and perhaps in the
> future it may have useful contents more regularly.)

Ah, yes, of course.  I should have paid more attention to what I was
pasting.  My point was to inform the OP that for the requirements he
describes, a typical stable + security system is the best bet.

good times,
Vineet
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