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Re: Debian and Security Updates



On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:52:33PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> Here's a tip for users that follow stable but also have other deb
> sources. 
> 
> 1. install cron-apt, and configure cron-apt to actually
> upgrade rather than just download debs.

And you probably want to remove the "autoclean y" line in
/etc/cron-apt/action.d/3-download, since autoclean will remove all
debs from /var/cache/apt/archives that is not available with the
current /etc/apt/sources.list.

> 2. make two versions of sources.list, "sources_full.list" including the unofficial deb
> sources, "sources_security.list" with only security.debian.org...
> 
> 3. write a cron script like:
> 
> cp /etc/apt/sources_security.list /etc/apt/sources.list
> cronapt
> cp /etc/apt/sources_full.list /etc/apt/sources.list

-- 
Note that I use Debian version 3.0
Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown

Hans Ekbrand

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