On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:43:47PM -0600, Jeremy Choy wrote: > Turns out that we are running a developers version of Oracle (8.1.7) in > which are dependant on potato's library's and if we were to run apt-get it > would break Oracle and perhaps a few other apps running. > > again fairly new and trying to get my head around how exacally unix works. > if potato is no longer being supported, does that mean if there is a > vulnerability in, let's say an old library, will they update that in woody, > but not potato?
Both potato and woody are currently supported. I believe the plan is to eliminate support for potato one year after woody's release. That would end support for potato July 19, 2003. At this point, when a bug is found in an old library, both potato and woody will get updates. The security FAQ will probably answer many of your questions better than I can. Check it out, and if you still have questions feel free to continue asking. http://www.debian.org/security/faq John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
