As I understand it, security.debian.org is still useful if you're running testing, since someone running testing still has some packages from potato. Unstable gets security fixes simply from regular upgrades while those using testing would normally have to wait for the packages to stabalize before getting the fixes. The security apt doesn't cover you for all packages, but it doesn't hurt to get backported security fixes for those packages that are still left over from stable. I still notice that it updates are grabbed from it relatively often for my testing box (the recent OpenSSH fix was one notable one).
-Rob On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:25:43AM +1100, hogan wrote: > > ftp://security.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib > > I thought security only had stable? Took a peek... Seems it does have more.. > HOWEVER.. > > There is no ftp://security.debian.org/debian > There is ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato|sid|slink|stable > There is http://security.debian.org/dists > There is no "testing" or "unstable" symlinks only a stable symlink > > ... therefore the following work: > > deb http://security.debian.org potato|sid|slink|stable main contrib non-free > deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato|sid|slink|stable main > contrib nonfree > > Based upon: > > ftp://security.debian.org/ has: > d--x--x--x 2 root root 4096 Jul 30 1999 bin > drwxrwxr-x 6 ftp 802 4096 Feb 25 19:53 debian-non-US > drwxrwsr-x 3 904 1129 4096 Aug 16 2000 debian-security > d--x--x--x 2 root root 4096 Apr 14 1999 etc > d--x--x--x 2 root root 4096 May 28 1999 lib > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 14 1999 pub > > http://security.debian.org/dists/ has: > potato/ 14-Oct-2000 09:39 - > sid/ 19-Aug-1999 21:46 - > slink/ 04-Sep-2000 21:04 - > stable/ 14-Oct-2000 09:39 - > >
