Re: What is best practice for managing sources.list for security and stability?

Thanks Thijs, Russ and Dan. I appreciate the insight. John Is the approach I outlined the best way to maintain the security and stability of these box's or should I really be using the main repositories as well? We maintain local mirrors of the main and security repos for the varieties

What is best practice for managing sources.list for security and stability?

Hi all, Perhaps this is a it depends... kind of question but here it goes: I manage several Debian boxes running Etch and Lenny. I installed Debian because I want long term stability and support for the applications running on the servers. After I build a box and get my applications tweaked I

Re: What is best practice for managing sources.list for security and stability?

Hi John, On moandei 25 Maaie 2009, john wrote: The recent key-change forced me to use the main stable repos to get the new keys (e.g apt-get install debian-archive-keyring ) . and got me thinking... Is the approach I outlined the best way to maintain the security and stability of these

Re: What is best practice for managing sources.list for security and stability?

john lists.j...@gmail.com writes: deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib The recent key-change forced me to use the main stable repos to get the new keys (e.g apt-get install debian-archive-keyring ) . and got

Re: What is best practice for managing sources.list for security and stability?

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:49:26AM -0700, john wrote: Hi all, Perhaps this is a it depends... kind of question but here it goes: I manage several Debian boxes running Etch and Lenny. I installed Debian because I want long term stability and support for the applications running on the