On 8/23/06, Juha Saarinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/23/06, Nico Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Set up another, non-production, box with 3.9 and build -stable on that.
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Seems a slightly cumbersome way to deal with security issues which may be urgent, but perhaps that's just me?
Building -stable on a suitable host does not take too long, so I suppose time constraints will not bite you too often. Regarding your comment on the process being cumbersome: you use the same update process as you do for your twice-yearly updates. In this case, you do not even have to update your configuration in /etc. I find the process rather easy and the process scales relatively well to accommodate larger number of machines. If you're working with a single machine, perhaps applying patches to -release is easier than building -stable. I used to do so before I obtained a build host. The OP will need a compiler for that, though. An alternative may be binpatch (see the archives), but I haven't tried that piece of software yet. IIRC, quite a few people are happy with that, so it may be worth your while. Cheers, Rogier -- If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.
