Re: What is best practice for managing sources.list for security and stability?
Thanks Thijs, Russ and Dan.
I appreciate the insight.
John
>>
>> Is the approach I outlined the "best" way to maintain the security and
>> stability of these box's or should I really be using the main
>> repositories as well?
>
> We maintain local mirrors of the main and security repos for the
> varieties of Debian we use (Etch and Lenny in i386 and AMD64
> flavors) plus a local repo of our own packages. All this can be
> considered staging: we can pull from it for a test box, and if
> it goes well, move the package into our production repo.
>
> This costs a bit in disk space (but not so much as it once did!)
> and saves a bit in bandwidth, which is really pronounced as
> "works faster when we need it".
>
> -dsr-
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