Re: update of the security page

2000-12-08 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 05:58:17PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > The apt line is what I'm talking about. The structure of the security > site has changed for every release, and apt lines have not been > portable. Maybe we've finally hit upon a formula that we'll keep, but > I'd prefer to watch t

Re: update of the security page

2000-12-08 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Michael Stone wrote: > There has always been a valid reason for changing it. The last one > (slink->potato) was to split the single archive directory into > main,contrib,non-free. There are no further changes planned, but changes So? That change was made for non-technical rea

Re: update of the security page

2000-12-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 04:23:32PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Michael Stone wrote: > > The apt line is what I'm talking about. The structure of the security > > site has changed for every release, and apt lines have not been > > If you want to keep it constant then commit

Re: update of the security page

2000-12-08 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Michael Stone wrote: > The apt line is what I'm talking about. The structure of the security > site has changed for every release, and apt lines have not been If you want to keep it constant then commit to not changing it. There isn't any reason at all that you should have to

Re: update of the security page

2000-12-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 02:56:38PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:50:31PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > We have never (not even once) had a security url that worked between > > releases. I don't want to pretend that we do unless there's some > > historical evidence for

Re: update of the security page

2000-12-08 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:50:31PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:54:32AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > > As an aside, would the security people have any problem with me changinge > > the deb line to > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-fre

Re: update of the security page

2000-12-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:54:32AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:58:23AM +0100, Christoph Fabianek wrote: > > the line deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib > > non-free > > did not work for me, and after a look at the server I saw that it should

Re: update of the security page

2000-12-08 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:58:23AM +0100, Christoph Fabianek wrote: > Hi! > > on http://www.debian.org/security/ the 5th paragraph says: > You may find it convenient to use apt to get the latest security updates. > This requires a line such as > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates mai