on Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:14:01AM +0800, John Summerfield insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > >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 ... > > Assuming you have these > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > in /etc/apt/sources.list (you only need the second if you're likely to > build from source) > (make sure you have all the seconds you need) > then > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade right, but i can't do that. the rest of my message went on to say that when i try to apt-get upgrade (i've already apt-gotten updated), because i haven't done it in so long, apt tries to upgrade 500+ packagest for me, which i don't have the space on /var to do. your solution is great, but i can't apply it until i figure out how to get apt to do only part of those 500+ at a time, to the point where my system is up to date. until then, though, how do i apply a security patch? sorry if that wasn't clear. thanks, </nori> -- .~. 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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