Re: determining which patches to apply...
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:43:47PM -0600, Jeremy Choy wrote:
> Turns out that we are running a developers version of Oracle (8.1.7) in
> which are dependant on potato's library's and if we were to run apt-get it
> would break Oracle and perhaps a few other apps running.
>
> again fairly new and trying to get my head around how exacally unix works.
> if potato is no longer being supported, does that mean if there is a
> vulnerability in, let's say an old library, will they update that in woody,
> but not potato?
Both potato and woody are currently supported. I believe the plan is to
eliminate support for potato one year after woody's release. That would
end support for potato July 19, 2003. At this point, when a bug is found
in an old library, both potato and woody will get updates. The security
FAQ will probably answer many of your questions better than I can. Check
it out, and if you still have questions feel free to continue asking.
http://www.debian.org/security/faq
John
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