Re: apt sources.list
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:36:02AM -0700, Jeff Coppock wrote:
> Can I get a few recommendations on the proper sources.list for
> a system running woody, that includes the security updates? I
> recently did an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and the
> security updates cause dependancy issues that I couldn't
> recover from and made my system unbootable, since lilo was
> involved. I'm scared to death to run another update/upgrade
> since I had to rebuild the system from scratch!
As others have said - don't do this :)
If security is especially important to you, run stable with security
updates, or track unstable daily and hope maintainers are responsive.
We try to see that woody is in coherent shape just before release, but
we can't supply fixes for it on any more urgent basis. It moves too
fast.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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