[wellylug] debian q's
Jamie Baddeley
wellylug at vpc.co.nz
Fri Mar 26 00:29:54 NZST 2004
apt-get -u upgrade is good. Let's review the changes.
sarge-sid is good.
woody-sid is less good.
Debian is the way.
Check wiki.debian.net for some handy shiznit.
Reading your question - you've gotta trust security.debian.org
Personally I wouldn't trust purely nz only sources. It's always a good
idea to diversify your suppliers.
security_is_stable.
j-me.
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 23:17, Alex wrote:
> > >b)
> > >
> > >is it possible to instruct apt-get to only get new packages from the
> > >apt security mirror but not the regular packages?
> >
>
> i mean when you type apt-get upgrade
> does this get the newest packages off both security and the regular
> updates?
>
> is there a way of telling apt-get upgrade to only get packages off
> security but NOT the regular packages.
>
> eg, this is my sources.list
>
> deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
> deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates
>
> i want to run apt-get update against a source list that looks like
> this:
>
> #deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> #deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
> contrib
>
> deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates
>
> ie force it to only update security and not the regular stable stuff
>
> obviously i dont' want to manually edit sources.list everytime i just
> want to get security stuff...any thoughts?
> -alex.
>
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