On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 06:42:53AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:57:28PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > in a testing environment I was trying to upgrade the security patches > > and I run the command > > apt-get upgrade. > > It ran fine, but at the end it upgraded my whole OS, first my test > > machine was showing Debian version 6.0.4 now after the upgrade it > > shifted to Wheezy/SID which I think is unstable. > > > > In Microsoft when we upgrade the OS. it downloads only the security > > and OS patches. > > > > So the question are > > > > 1. how to upgrade only the security patches? > > If security is your concern, you ought to be running "stable" as > opposed to testing. If you run stable, then ensuring that > security.debian.org is listed in the /etc/apt/sources.list will fetch > security updates. >
Or, you could run testing and put in sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free Still, I do consider stable to be safer, and do stick with it... -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120525145453.GA13504@radhesyama
