Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

[Shawn Lamson <madzimambo@optonline.net>]

On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:00:22 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:15:03PM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> > 
> > from http://www.debian.org/security/ 
> > 
> > You can use apt to easily get the latest security updates. This
> > requires a line such as
> > 
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free
> > 

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> > > 
> > > In other words, which is better for Etch (tetsing):
> > > 
> > > deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib     or
> > > 
> 
> *********
> > > deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
> *********
> 
> use this one for security updates for testing (which will track
> "testing" and leave etch behind when it moves to "stable"). To follow
> etch into stable, replace "testing" with "etch" above.

i guess i was always under the impression that security updates were always for "stable" (sarge) ... sorry.

I agree about using "testing" rather than "etch" ... i run "sid" but almost always use "stable" "testing" and "unstable" unless i want to impress/confuse someone :)

Shawn


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Shawn Lamson
madzimambo@optonline.net