On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:59:47AM -0500, chandler wrote: > Similarly, after a recent apt-get dist-upgrade (intended to grab security > updates only,
Then why did you dist-upgrade? I think it's pretty self-explanatory that if you're upgrading from one distribution to another (like from stable to testing) you use dist-upgrade. If you're upgrading for security and bug fixes, you use upgrade. > so should I remove the non security.debian.org URLs from > /apt/sources?) No, just don't use dist-upgrade and make sure all of your sources are pointing to the correct distribution of Debian you are tracking. > on my firewall box, I somehow managed to get all of X windows > installed and a copule of services I didn't want installed AND started AND > added to /etc/rc*.d. Thankfully X windows still requires "startx" to get > going, but the services (junkbuster and wwwoffle) were just there. And while > reboots on that machine are limited to power outages, it's still extra work > to administer that stuff into the 'off' position. apt-get remove junkbuster wwwoffle --purge Not so hard to me. > To me the lack of warnings or configurability during an apt-get install for a > service is a questionable practice. Have you ever bothered to lower your message priority in debconf? dpkg-reconfigure debconf. Choose 'low'. Learn about the tools before you start to criticize them. -Rob