OK, in the past 2 weeks I've gotten rid of Morphix because I wanted the speed increase of LFS and whilst trying to compile KDE for lfs realised that life is too short to mess around getting stuff to compile (kdelib is a nightmare. I managed to fix one of the errors I got with my half remembered C skills (I used to be a quite good C coder until I got a job with COBOL) then I got another one about ambiguous function calls and gave up), so I gave debian another go (couldn't get X11 working last time I tried).
Anyway, could someone give me an example of their sources.list file please? I assume using the UK mirrors would be good enough but thought I'd check just in case not...
Secondly, can someone tell me how to just get the security updates when I do an apt-get upgrade? I'm pretty sure there is an ftp server or two which just has the security updates but I haven't been able to find it with my googling powers. I assume specifying the source when doing the upgrade will do what I want it to, but without a server to connect to I'm stuffed aren't I ;)
Sorry for the debian newbie questions...
BenE
On Saturday, Sep 13, 2003, at 00:06 Europe/London, BenEBoy wrote:
Anyway, could someone give me an example of their sources.list file please? I assume using the UK mirrors would be good enough but thought I'd check just in case not...
Best ones:
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
Though those are unstable and security updates aren't needed since you will be doing a big fat dist-upgrade.
Sorry for the debian newbie questions...
Not a problem, remember if you find that uk.debian.org goes down.. change the uk to se or de. Find whatever mirrors are closer for good downloads. I presume you are on mr adsl now? ;)
C
On 2003-09-13 00:06:57 +0100 BenEBoy mail@psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Anyway, could someone give me an example of their sources.list file please? I assume using the UK mirrors would be good enough but thought I'd check just in case not...
UK mirrors are fine. I think there's aptconf which can help you to make one.
Secondly, can someone tell me how to just get the security updates when I do an apt-get upgrade?
This should be the default. My security line is sometimes deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main
If you're using stable and point at named releases ("woody" instead of "stable") then security updates should be the only changes, pretty much. More info at http://security.debian.org/
Hope that helps,
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