RE: applying _only_ security updates
Regardless,
Is it possible to do?
I ask because I am running a potato system with many packages from woody,
and some security packages take longer to get into testing then they do to
get into stable.
Cheers
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ethan Benson [SMTP:erbenson@alaska.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:10 PM
> To: debian-user
> Subject: Re: applying _only_ security updates
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:47:30PM -0500, DvB wrote:
> > is there a way to get apt-get to install only packages from
> > security.debian.org? This without removing all other entries from
> > /etc/apt/sources.list and running at apt-get update.
>
> thats a poor idea, since security updates are removed from
> security.debian.org and merged into the mainline dist when a point
> release (such as the recent r3) are made.
>
> right now security.debian.org has only two security updates.
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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