Re: preparing upgrade

[Axel Freyn <axel-freyn@gmx.de>]

Hi,
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 04:52:06PM +0200, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking at the release notes to get comfortable with what's in
> them and to get a feeling for what I need to look at when upgrading
> our debian servers.
> Most of our servers were installed as Etch and then upgraded to Lenny.
> 
> In my sources.list files I have lines like:
> deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main non-free contrib
> 
> I understand I need to add squeeze-updates to that list as well and
> remove volatile if I have it somewhere. (And of course change the
> lenny to squeeze at the proper moment during upgrade).
> 
> But what are those security.debian.org lines for? Is that some
> leftover from Etch, which I can detele, or is it something I still
> need in Squeeze? Is it something like the new squeeze-updates
> repository? I cannot find anything about it, or at least nothing that
> will tell me clearly what I need to do.

You have to keep security.debian.org. Those are under control of the
security team and cointain the fast & important security updates.
See e.g. http://www.debian.org/security/
Volatile now is integrated in the "official" squeeze-updates:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2011/msg00000.html
There it's also stated clearly:
"This suite will contain updates that satisfy one of the following
criteria:

 * The update is urgent and not of a security nature.  Security updates
   will continue to be pushed through the security archive.
...
" 
So, security.debian.org continues to be important :-)

Axel