Re: Mirrors for security.debian.org?

[Florian Ernst]

Hello *,

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 08:49:27AM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> [...]
> This policy is quite understandable, but as an aside: Anybody know if 
> the developers have started preparing a point release? 

Yes, please see the massages labeled "Preparation of the next stable
Debian GNU/Linux update" on debian-release, the latest is at
.

HTH,
Flo


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Re: Mirrors for security.debian.org?

[Kjetil Kjernsmo]

On tirsdag 20 september 2005, 06:15, Joe Smith wrote:
> Q: Why are there no official mirrors for security.debian.org?
> A: The purpose of security.debian.org is to make security updates
> available as quickly and easily as possible.

This policy is quite understandable, but as an aside: Anybody know if 
the developers have started preparing a point release? 

With both the number of packages in proposed-updates and the size and 
popularity of some of them, notably X and Apache, it would have been 
nice to have a point release, both for the mirror problem and for 
installation from CDs onto low-bandwidth systems. 

Cheers,

Kjetil
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Re: Mirrors for security.debian.org?

[Joe Smith]

"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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Any of the national mirrors have the security archive mirrored in the
debian-security/ directory
You can use them. They should contain the same thing as security.debian.org 
as they are both just copies of ftp-master's repositories. However Debian 
does not offical support the use of any security repositories other than 
security.debian.org (Although ftp-master would theoretically be even better, 
that server is already taxed enough.)


The offical security team faq says:

Q: Why are there no official mirrors for security.debian.org?
A: The purpose of security.debian.org is to make security updates available 
as quickly and easily as possible.


Encouraging the use of unofficial mirrors would add extra complexity that is 
usually not needed and that can cause frustration if these mirrors are not 
kept up to date. Official mirrors, however, are planned to be implemented in 
the future.




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Re: Mirrors for security.debian.org?

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:18:47PM -0400, William Ballard wrote:
> I'm trying to do a rather sizable security upgrade of Xwindows from 
> security.debian.org, and it's rather slow.  I always find security.d.o 
> to be slower to respond to apt-get update than my primary server.
> 
> Can I use a mirror for that?

Any of the national mirrors have the security archive mirrored in the
debian-security/ directory.  I would try that first.

-Roberto

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Mirrors for security.debian.org?

[William Ballard]

I'm trying to do a rather sizable security upgrade of Xwindows from 
security.debian.org, and it's rather slow.  I always find security.d.o 
to be slower to respond to apt-get update than my primary server.

Can I use a mirror for that?


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