[wellylug] debian q's

Cameron Hart sexy at cam.rebel.net.nz
Fri Mar 26 00:58:14 NZST 2004


On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:17, Alex wrote:
> is there a way of telling apt-get upgrade to only get packages off
> security but NOT the regular packages.

The current stable version of Debian (3.0r2) has been locked and the packages 
won't change anymore, unless they release a new revision, which doesn't 
happen too often. A look at the packages list on the NZ mirror says it hasn't 
been updated since 23rd November 2003. The security updates however will be 
updated when things need to be patched according to newly found security 
holes and such. apt should be smart enough to download only the packages 
which need security 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.

Also If you want to download CD images for Debian, the official tool is called 
jigdo : 
http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
The official stable distribution is 8 CD's but the most popular packages are 
on the first one or two CD's. The CD's are bootable, and you can install from 
them.

You said something also about installing to a bunch of machines...
The info on debian.org says you can start a web server on your lan, and create 
a directory on there with a copy of the files off of the cd, and then put the 
address to that server in your apt-sources. I.e.
You have computer 192.168.0.1 with a web server.
On this server in your Document Root directory create in there a directory 
called "debiancd1" and copy the files from the first cd into it, or just make 
the directory a link to the mount point.
Then on subsequent machines you wish to install to put a line in their 
sources.list

deb http://192.168.0.1/debiancd1/ stable main contrib

Or I suppose you could just take the CD's around to each computer... :)

--
Cameron




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