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 -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net/jnl ^`~'^ ++ Sponsor me as I run my SECOND marathon for AIDS: ++ ++ http://www.aidsmarathon.com/participant.asp?runner=DC-2844 ++
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