Re: Updated Package List

2002-07-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
"Jens Hafner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > some of you suggested to remove portmap in order close some more port > and thereby increase security. Since I never really understood what the > pormapper was doing, I though I could do without it. However, once I > tried to uninstall the package with d

Re: Updated Package List

2002-07-31 Thread Markus Fischer
To my knowledge you can safely ignore it. I'm always purging the package on every server installation I did since I know my servers don't use rpc at all. - Markus On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 08:46:38AM +0200, Jens Hafner wrote : > some of you suggested to remove portmap in order clos

RE: Updated Package List

2002-07-31 Thread Jens Hafner
Hi there, some of you suggested to remove portmap in order close some more port and thereby increase security. Since I never really understood what the pormapper was doing, I though I could do without it. However, once I tried to uninstall the package with dselect, I got a dependency issue saying

Re: Updated Package List

2002-07-30 Thread Gareth Bowker
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:15:49PM -0400, Ahmed Charles wrote: > Good Day, > > Thanks for the response but my question was alike vague, what i meant to ask > was about the security updates, if a package list containing the new ones > was available anywhere for download (thats why I didnt post it t

Re: Updated Package List

2002-07-30 Thread Ahmed Charles
security part :-) ) Thanks allot Ahmed Charles - Original Message - From: "Gareth Bowker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ahmed Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-security users" Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 6:58 PM Subject: Re: Updated Package List

Re: Updated Package List

2002-07-30 Thread Gareth Bowker
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:31:48PM -0400, Ahmed Charles wrote: > Good Day, > > Is there an updated package list that i can download manually so that my > dselect is up-to-date? > > And if there is, where can i get it? dselect has an "Update" option which will grab the latest packages list. It do