On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 20:13, Colin Walters wrote: [better security updates] > I think it would be better to just improve a GUI package manager so that > it knows about security updates, and will make them a high priority. > This would be fairly easy to implement in the backend; all we'd need to > do is add a Priority: high field or something to the Packages file. > Then the frontend could just color those red, display them separately, > whatever. $ cat /etc/apt/preferences [...] Package: * Pin: release l=Debian-Security,a=stable Pin-Priority: 700 [...] afaics backend support is already done. All that's needed is to make sure this will *always* (in the future) catch security updates, and frontend support. Did I already say how much I like apt? :-) cheers -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature http://fortytwo.ch/gpg NOTE: get my key here: http://www.google.com/search?q=mQGiBDx2a6ERBAC8l
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