J. Grant wrote: > [Please include my email address in any replies] > > Presently using debian sarge, I would like to update my system with only > security fixes which have been made available since Sarge was released. > Now sure how to do this.
You want "apt-get upgrade". (Or "aptitude upgrade".) > would "apt-get upgrade" also update non-security fixed packages? Sarge is released as Debian Stable. The stable release does not change. It is stable. (Debian unstable changes.) Therefore you will not get any other changes unless you have other listing in your sources.list file. Periodically Debian releases critical updates to the stable release which are can include upgrades not specifically security updates but mostly upgrades the released stable image with the currently active set of security upgrades. Here is the last one for the oldstable woody release http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-2005/msg00002.html These are very conservative changes with a very restrictive set of criteria for inclusion and I think you as a conservative would also want those upgrades. If you include the debian sarge depot in your sources.list then you will also get those when they are made. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
