Re: how to avoid download during debian installation.

[Paul Condon <pecondon1@gmail.com>]

On 05/12/2013 10:26 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> David Christensen a écrit :
> > On 05/12/13 00:32, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > > The client is not using approx for security updates. Why ?
> > That's the way the Debian installer set it up.
> Thus I regret that the installer does not allow to manually configure a
> custom mirror for security updates. I thought about configuring it as a
> standard mirror, but this is not possible because of the<name>/update
> path instead of<name>.
I think that the installer does not place restrictions on Approx serving 
security updates.
I think I have that working in my Approx.
My /etc/approx/approx.conf contains just two un-commented lines:

debian          http://ftp.debian.org/debian
security        http://security.debian.org/


> > I used to set clients to get security updates from my Approx server, but
> > lately I just leave the installer settings alone.
> May I ask why ?