Thanks Thijs, Russ and Dan. I appreciate the insight.
John >> >> Is the approach I outlined the "best" way to maintain the security and >> stability of these box's or should I really be using the main >> repositories as well? > > We maintain local mirrors of the main and security repos for the > varieties of Debian we use (Etch and Lenny in i386 and AMD64 > flavors) plus a local repo of our own packages. All this can be > considered staging: we can pull from it for a test box, and if > it goes well, move the package into our production repo. > > This costs a bit in disk space (but not so much as it once did!) > and saves a bit in bandwidth, which is really pronounced as > "works faster when we need it". > > -dsr- > > > > -- > http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. > > You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
