On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 00:36 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > I have packages installed from backports repo. Now I want to remove the > repo from my source list and therefore use not any more packages from > there. My question is on security stuff, as AFAIK I can get into a > troublesome situation - in case of simply stopping using updates from > the repo - that in those packages bugs can be found but I will not get > updates for them - because: backports repo is no more available, and > the updates/security repos have updates but not for so high version as > the ones I have. > > So, what is the secure and the easiest way of turning from using the > repo?
Hi You might want to downgrade your software to match the version of the main repo, but it could do some nasty things with your configuration files. Otherwise, you can `apt-get remove` them (plus --purge if you want to reset your configuration files) and re-install them : that way you'll use the main-repo version and you won't want have security problems anymore. Anyway, leaving your software in their current state doesn't seem very secure. -- MARGUERIE Jérémie _____ Student (Sup) at /EPITA\ Webmaster of www.web-modules.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org