On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:02:06PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > This is a repost of the message I sent on Oct 22. It obviously didn't get > through. In case it did, and I was overlooking it, I apologize for any > inconvenience. > > I got a few questions concerning proposed updates: > > 1. Are there proposed updates for "Potato"?
Yes. deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ proposed-updates/ deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib non-free > 2. Is it ALWAYS a good thing to install proposed updates for "Potato" or > are there situations where one should refrain from installing them? If > there are such situations, what are they? 'proposed-updates' contains exactly that: it's whatever a developer decides to upload to the 'stable' distribution. As such, it carries no more guarantees than an upload to unstable. The cautious person would only upgrade packages that have been checked in some other way: packages that appear on the security.debian.org source above will have been verified as a reasonable addition to the stable distribution, as will anything that appears in a stable point release. Each package in proposed-updates comes with source code, of course (unless perhaps for certain packages in non-free), so you can check then out for yourself. > 3. What's the exact URL where I can get proposed updates from? > > 3. Is it recommended to install proposed updates for "Potato" manually or > via apt? > > 4. If the apt method is the one to choose, what line(s) do I have to add > to my /etc/apt/sources.list file? apt is a reasonable method to use, and the lines above should be fine. Copy each line and replace 'deb' with 'deb-src' if you want to use 'apt-get source' to fetch source packages. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
