Re: Potato

[Nathan Duehr <nate@natetech.com>]

Hmmm...

Good point.  The default .deb that contains /etc/apt/sources.list in the
next version of releases should probably come with the line added for the
security.debian.org stuff. 

Actually, I just checked my potato system and it appears that there's
already a line in that sources.list file for the security server, but I
don't remember if I put it in there or if it was there originally.

Perhaps someone with a potato that they know they haven't modified could
confirm whether or not this is standard in potato?

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Thomas Keusch wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 10:57:11AM -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote:
> 
> > No, security.debian.org is a relatively new thing and probably isn't as
> > documented as it should be.  It's not the same as proposed-updates.
> 
> Oh. OK.
> 
> > I don't understand the question about sources.list -- if you mean is there
> > a list of mirrors, it's on the Debian website.
> 
> No, essentially I was thinking about a sample sources.list which already
> contained stuff like security.debian.org, not only the bare bones example
> that comes with apt -- how many newbies will take months to notice that
> there is a simple possibility to automate (more or less) security fixes via
> apt, because they first need to find out about security.debian.org and then
> to have the idea of creating an apt-line for it?
> 
> > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates
> > > 
> > > Is this the same as proposed-updates/ ?
> > > 
> > > Is there a more complete sources.list then the default one on
> > > www.debian.org?
> > > 
> > > I learned about the line Nate mentioned just now and wonder how many people
> > > miss important stuff like that.
> 
> -- 
> 
>  thomas.                                .powered.by.debian/linux.
>                                            .served.by.FreeBSD.
> 
> 

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