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Re: Security Updates



On 8/30/16, Tim McDonough <tmcdonough@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Larry Dighera <LDighera@att.net> wrote:
>>
>> This page <https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/errata> states:
>>
>>     "If you use APT, add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list to
>> be
>> able
>>     to access the latest security updates:
>>
>>     deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
>>
>>     After that, run apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade."
>>
>> Adding that entry to /etc/apt/sources.list on the Raspberry Pi3 running
>> Debian
>> Jessie results in an error message indicating that the public key is not
>> found.
>> It also finds two libraries that require updating that are not found when
>> the
>> above mentioned /etc/apt/sources.list entry is removed.
>>
>>   1.  What do I need to do to prevent the error message?
>>
>>   2.  As there are other security related URLs (doubtless, as
>>   distributed/released) that are checked during apt-get update, is the
>>   recommended additional entry advisable/useful for this platform?
>
> Your Raspberry Pi is most likely running Raspbian and not Debian.
> Raspbian's updates must be ported by their development team when Debian
> releases them. At one time they claimed the lag was about a half day to a
> day behind being released by Debian.


Don't know if it applies here, but the mention of "Raspbian" triggered
the thought that Raspbian gets a few mentions over at the Debian-ARM
list:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/

I accidentally joined their list quite a while back while mistaking it
for AMD64 (was a cognitive mixup thing). They're interesting over
there and figure I might play with something like that some day so I'm
still lurking in the background. :)

Just thinking out loud.

Cindy :)

-- 
Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA

* runs with duct tape *


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