Ok folks, thanks for your help so far. Next questions,
1) I added ( deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main ) to my
sources.list file... I briefly checked (re-ran apt-setup) to see if I could
use my local mirror (tux.org) for the security updates... but it appears this
section is not mirrored... is this correct? How else can one see what is
getting mirrored where?
2) I have a couple questions from the output of running "apt-get upgrade". My
output follows:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
communicator
4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 6101kB of archives. After unpacking 8447kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
- I am disturbed that it does not tell me the package names before performing
the upgrade (if I recall correctly, normal "apt-get upgrade"s do)?!
- What is the significance of "communicator being held back"... I recall
reading some problems with the redhat rpms breaking java with communicator,
but what is my debian system trying to do with communicator and why
thanks again for the help, debian rocks!
donfede
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:52:03PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote:
> Federico Grau wrote:
> >
> > Actually ... no :-( ... I commented that line out because I did not know
> > what
> > it did and could see no mention of it in the man page (sources.list 5).
> >
> > Why would security updates need a seperate sources line? Shouldn't they
> > simply be considered part of the distribution?
>
> security fixes are usually quick patches to fix a hole not fully tested.
> an example of this is redhats glibc update (a couple days ago?) seem to
> have broken their JDK setup, someone on bugtraq reccomended that people
> that need JDK either don't use the update or recompile JDK under the new
> glibc.
>
> once they are fully tested and declared stable they are usually put into
> the distribution.
>
> nate
>
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