Re: Updating Debian in a very secure way
Chris Metzler <cmetzler@speakeasy.net> writes:
>> What's wrong with it?
>
> Nothing's wrong with it: it's what you asked for. You started
> out with a sources.list that drew from stable, testing, and unstable,
> as well as unofficial repositories, but *didn't* draw from the
> security updates. You said you wanted to "only get secure packages",
> and then later clarified that to say y that you wanted "updates which
> are believed to work very stable and fully tested or at least
> something like this". So you were given a sources.list which drew
> updates from the stable distribution, and from the security updates
> (which are updates to stable). The sources.list you were provided
> didn't include testing or unstable, because you explicitly said
> you didn't want those. That's where the "enormous list of updates"
> was coming from: those two distributions. The stable distribution
> doesn't get many updates.
Alright. So, I guess even now there are not all packages at my system
stable or secure.
> It sounds to me like you haven't read the documentation about this
> stuff, and don't really know what's going on -- what the differences
> are between stable, testing and unstable;
That's right. I can promise that I'll do this in just a moment.
> what packages/distributions get security updates, new version updates,
> etc. I recommend reading the Debian FAQ, esp. sections 5-8; and the
> Debian Reference, esp. sections 2 and parts of 5-6. Others here may
> have other recommendations.
But I agree with nearly all things you've mentioned in your posting.
Thanks a lot.
Moritz
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