Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What's wrong with it? > > Nothing's wrong with it: it's what you asked for. You started > out with a sources.list that drew from stable, testing, and unstable, > as well as unofficial repositories, but *didn't* draw from the > security updates. You said you wanted to "only get secure packages", > and then later clarified that to say y that you wanted "updates which > are believed to work very stable and fully tested or at least > something like this". So you were given a sources.list which drew > updates from the stable distribution, and from the security updates > (which are updates to stable). The sources.list you were provided > didn't include testing or unstable, because you explicitly said > you didn't want those. That's where the "enormous list of updates" > was coming from: those two distributions. The stable distribution > doesn't get many updates.
Alright. So, I guess even now there are not all packages at my system stable or secure. > It sounds to me like you haven't read the documentation about this > stuff, and don't really know what's going on -- what the differences > are between stable, testing and unstable; That's right. I can promise that I'll do this in just a moment. > what packages/distributions get security updates, new version updates, > etc. I recommend reading the Debian FAQ, esp. sections 5-8; and the > Debian Reference, esp. sections 2 and parts of 5-6. Others here may > have other recommendations. But I agree with nearly all things you've mentioned in your posting. Thanks a lot. Moritz -- please send mail to momo.beller(AT)t-online(DOT)de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
