Re: Dselect

[Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>]

On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:

> As I understand it, buzz is the current stable version and rex is
> the current unstable version.

buzz is *NOT* the current stable version.  buzz is the version that was
pressed on all CDs.  If you use buzz, you will be exposing yourself to
major security holes discovered since buzz was released.

Please use buzz-fixed, aka stable, aka Debian-1.1-fixed, aka
Debian-1.1.<x>.  (x is incremented whenever a change is made).

The easiest way to stay current is to use the ftp method of dselect and
point it at stable.  Alternatively you can install all the packages in
/debian/buzz-updates/binary.

The READMEs in the /debian, /debian/buzz, /debian/buzz-updates, and
/debian/buzz-fixed explain all this.


Guy