> Why can't you? Have you made the appropriate change to your > sources.list? IIRC, APT should work just fine with FTP. (Also IIRC, > APT slightly predates the widespread appearance of HTTP Debian > mirrors...)
um, because security updates works only with HTTP. i know all what one can do with the sources.list including using cd-roms but what i'm after is if anyone has actually done security updates using ftp. you can do updates using ftp for all other .deb packages so why would security updates be any different?