Re: problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-19 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Now that the original poster has found is answer, I guess an aside is ok, On mandag 19 september 2005, 17:56, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > But if the is compromised, won't they also have > the key? No, they would have to get to joey's (or another member of the security team's) secret key, and comp

Re: problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-19 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On mandag 19 september 2005, 00:18, Hans Ekbrand wrote: You must expect issues like these, it is a feature... :-) Not getting security updates automatically installed a feature? Not in my world! Well, imagine the security.debian.org box getting compromis

Re: problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:07:45AM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: [...] > My question is: > > "How do I do to get automatic security updates also for packages that > I have changed a conffile in?" The answer was in the Debian Reference Manual http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.

Re: problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:29:38AM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On mandag 19 september 2005, 00:18, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > You must > > > expect issues like these, it is a feature... :-) > > > > Not getting security updates automatically installed a feature? Not > > in my world! > > Well, im

Re: problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-18 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On mandag 19 september 2005, 00:18, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > You must > > expect issues like these, it is a feature... :-) > > Not getting security updates automatically installed a feature? Not > in my world! Well, imagine the security.debian.org box getting compromised, and the attacker pumping

Re: problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:50:28PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On søndag 18 september 2005, 23:34, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > I have changed /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc, but so what? Why does dpkg fail > > here? > > There are certain limitations to doing things automatically, and in this > case, it dete

Re: problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-18 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On søndag 18 september 2005, 23:34, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > I have changed /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc, but so what? Why does dpkg fail > here? There are certain limitations to doing things automatically, and in this case, it detects certain changes that it needs your input on. It is a config files that's

problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Hi debian-user! I have sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade in my crontab and the following sources for apt: deb http://debian.archive.of.my.country/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free since release of sarge and until now that h