Re: keeping woody
On (28/09/04 18:50), Joost Witteveen wrote:
> Clive Menzies wrote:
>
> >Ah! Well this does here:
> >deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main
>
> Reminds me of the time my box was rooted. Must have been 1997 or
> thereabouts, and I was constantly keeping my box uptodate with
> the latest unstable (testing didn't exist, nor did apt), but I
> (religiously) updated only the really free stuff -- I didn't want to
> pollute my system with anything else.
>
> I forgot ofcource that I did once install a pop3 server from the uni of
> washington (that wasn't free back then, but I believe I couldn't find a
> free alternative). And that server had a bug in it, and it hadn't been
> updated for months.
>
> Well, all that just to mention that only using the security updates from
> main may be dangerous, if you already have non-free packages installed.
>
> Anyway http://www.debian.org/security advertises
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main contrib non-free
>
> so I suppose that should work too. (without the debian-security part)
Wow! Thanks Joost
That's why I think this list is so great ;) I had no idea, never even
thought about it. Although, the example I gave above is from my servers
which run plain vanilla woody - no gui and I don't think there is any
non-free stuff on them. Time to google to verify that.
My sid workstation has the right deal, I think:
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main
contrib non-free
Regards
Clive
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