Package: www.debian.org
Version: N/A;
Severity: important
http://www.debian.org/security/ says
You may find it convenient to use apt to get the latest security
updates. This requires a line such as deb
http://security.debian.org/ stable updates in your
/etc/apt/sources.list file.
I wanted to get security updates for my potato machine, so I made the
obvious change to that line -- I tried
http://security.debian.org/ potato updates
However, that didn't work; here's what I saw:
07:56:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] offby1]# apt-get update
Err http://security.debian.org potato/updates Packages
404 Not Found
Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/main Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/main Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/contrib Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/contrib Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/non-free Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/non-free Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/main Sources
Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/main Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/contrib Sources
Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/contrib Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/non-free Sources
Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/non-free Release
Ign http://security.debian.org potato/updates Release
Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/contrib Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/contrib Release
Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/non-free Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/non-free Release
Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/main Sources
Ign http://http.us.debian.org potato/main Release
Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/contrib Sources
Ign http://http.us.debian.org potato/contrib Release
Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/non-free Sources
Ign http://http.us.debian.org potato/non-free Release
Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/binary-i386/Packages
404 Not Found
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org
potato/updates Packages'
(/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_potato_updates_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
used instead.
Through trial and error, I determined that the correct line is
deb http://security.debian.org/ potato updates/contrib updates/main
updates/non-free
Perhaps this means that the text on http://www.debian.org/security/ is
incorrect; or perhaps it means that the updates for potato are in the
wrong place. But in any case, I shouldn't have had to experiment as I
did in order to determine the correct line for /etc/apt/sources.list;
I should have been able to copy the correct line directly from the
text on http://www.debian.org/security/.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux potato 2.2.14 #1 Tue Apr 25 10:11:42 EST 2000 i686
