On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Kumar Appaiah <a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:57:28PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> in a testing environment I was trying to upgrade the security patches >> and I run the command >> apt-get upgrade. >> It ran fine, but at the end it upgraded my whole OS, first my test >> machine was showing Debian version 6.0.4 now after the upgrade it >> shifted to Wheezy/SID which I think is unstable. >> >> In Microsoft when we upgrade the OS. it downloads only the security >> and OS patches. >> >> So the question are >> >> 1. how to upgrade only the security patches? > > If security is your concern, you ought to be running "stable" as > opposed to testing. If you run stable, then ensuring that > security.debian.org is listed in the /etc/apt/sources.list will fetch > security updates. thanks for the response, but more i concern was a patch like fix patches in Microsoft. i thought it would be working in same way :P as i am already behind the firewall and actively monitoring things so security from outside is not a concern for me. but securing the debian box is also a target to achieve and security should not be neglected. ill subscribe for the mailing list ASAP thanks for the advice. > >> 2. if the upgrade patch trigger any critical issue. Like any service >> like hosting, filesharing or squid got effected by the update, how >> come we know which patch cause this problem and how to remove that >> specific patch because in Microsoft I have seen that security patches >> and OS patches some time make problems when run along with ongoing >> services. > > I'd advise you to subscribe to the security mailing list of the > projects which you run on your machine whose security issues you are > concerned about. > > Read this for further details and ideas: http://www.debian.org/security/ > >> 3. how to revert back to old OS, for example, in my case i upgraded my >> system from 6.0.4 to Wheezy/SID now want to revert things back. > > This is a little complicated and one could end up hosing one's > system. I'd advise you to back up things and do a fresh install of > squeeze. > > HTH. > > Kumar > -- > We use Linux for all our mission-critical applications. Having the source > code > means that we are not held hostage by anyone's support department. > -- Russell Nelson, President of Crynwr Software > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/20120525114253.gb5...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in >
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