Hi, Reply to a post to debian-www a long time ago.
* Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-11 08:54:31]: > * Morten Brix Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-10 11:52]: > > At http://www.debian.org/security/, the suggested security line to add > > to sources.list points at 'potato'. Shouldn't this point at 'stable' > > instead? > > I don't think so. It has different meanings. If you would change it > to stable instead of potato you'll be tracking woody once it's released > and might end up with security updates from woody that might be > > a) uninstallable for woody dependencies and you might have potato in > your other deb-lines > > b) unnoticed system-upgrades when woody is released. This can lead to > different severe problems, like huge not expected downloads, or even > service breakage due to changed setup/syntax and such. Funny, I just installed a woody system today, and when asked to get security updates from security.debian.org, it added the lines as *stable*. Compared to your (fine) comments, thats quite ironic I'd say. - Morten. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
