Re: Installing security updates

2011-12-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 29 dec 11, 13:41:46, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I think the idea of Testing is incompatible with security upgrades > only. That is where Stable comes in. Yep > There is the testing updates security archive: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free > > But

Re: Installing security updates

2011-12-29 Thread Bob Proulx
T o n g wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> My box maintaining strategy is, the least maintenance possible the > >> better. E.g., I only want to upgrade the minimum set of packages. So of > >> all the packages that I need to upgrade, I only want to upgrade those > >> security updates. How can I do that

Re: Installing security updates

2011-12-28 Thread Bob Proulx
T o n g wrote: > Is there any easy way to installing only the security updates? Yes. Run Debian Stable which is currently Squeeze and only have Squeeze archives in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Do not run Wheezy nor Sid because those change daily and will offer much more than security upgrad