John Winters wrote: > > > > > 1) Ask before attempting to get security updates. (Obviously default to > > > yes). > > > > There's no good reason to ask. > > Well, no - clearly there is a good reason to ask. > > > If the machine is network connected it > > should make every possible effort to use security updates, > > True, and by failing to ask it is not making every possible effort to > use them. No, you're conflating asking whether to use security updates, with asking where to get them from. > > If you really want to disable it, you can preseed > > apt-setup/security_host to an empty string, as documented in the > > installation manual. > > Where? I've read all the apparently relevant chunks of the installation > manual but can find nothing like that documented in it. It's in the appendix on preseeding. > Clearly you have little experience of real-world networks. This is just > the sort of problem which a non-admin on a Windows network has to deal > with on a daily basis. > > If you have administrator access it's easy, but if not it's hard to > impossible. Yes, the particular network on which I was trying to do it > is badly set up, but the problem is equally the fault of bad defaults in > the Debian installer. Just saying, "It's the other components fault - > fix that" is the worst form of buck-passing. > > Sorry to be short, but it's been a long and hard day and you need to > realise that a response like yours does the Debian project (which I > greatly admire) absolutely no favours. Well, I'm sorry you feel that way, and I wish you luck in getting a better response from someone else. Although, you need to realize that with the above attitude, you're unlikely to. -- see shy jo, ta
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