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Re: security for woody



On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:13:43PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Thus spake shock:
> > pardons for asking this, but i can't remember or locate the answer.
> > what entry should i use in sources.list for security updates to
> > woody?
> > 
> > thanks.
> I have http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main
> contrib in my sources.list file - works fine, although it may just be
> a redirect to the non-US branch.  Good luck, Steve

security.debian.org and non-us.debian.org are the same machine.  So apt
source you specify above is just a non-us source; It has nothing to do
with security at all.

Woody is *NOT SUPPORTED BY THE SECURITY TEAM*!  Keep this in mind,
because when you see an announcement of a new Debian security fix there
is no guarantee that you'll get it installed on your woody system when
you next do a dist-upgrade.  In fact it's really more likely that you
won't, since the fix will have to be applied to sid first.

If you keep this in mind, and keep up with security news, then it is
possible to run a reasonably secure woody system.  I'd wager that it's
usually at least as secure as any "out of the box" Redhat installation,
but you really never know.

noah

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