hey,
reading the debian weekly news, i noticed a couple packages that i
have installed with newly-discovered security holes in them. the
newsletter says about these packages "you know the drill." well, i
don't ...
reading up on security on the security FAQ, i see that just upgrading
to a higher version number isn't the answer, as security fixes are
backported to the same version. i have the relevant security lines in
my /etc/apt/sources.list, so i guess i'd just need to do an apt-get
upgrade to fix this?
thing is, i haven't done this in a long while, and not only does apt
want to upgrade over 500 packages on my system, i don't have enough
space in /var for it to do this.
so, what's the Right Way of getting the security patches to these
packages, besides apt-get upgrading? is there one? [1] seems to
imply that the right way is the way i can't do ...
thanks very much,
</nori>
[1]
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s-security-update
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