[plug] Debian -security- question

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Christian wrote:

> "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" wrote:
> >         just a quick one.  Is there, or I shoudl say where is there, a debian
> > security mirror "close" us.  I check uwa and I didn't see it.  I could've been
> > looking in the wrong places.
> > I was hoping to add it to apt and make my life easier.
> 
> As a suggestion, it might be worth just going directly to the master
> site in this case.  I don't know how often the mirrors update and if
> you're going to use APT to automatically obtain any security updates on
> a regular basis then, if the mirrors update slowly, it might turn out to
> be faster to wget the debs given from the debian-security mailing list
> announcements.  Of course, this all depends on how quickly the security
> mirrors update themselves...

I was trying to lighten the load on the primary distribution sites.  I dod get
the announcements about product updates.

Anyway thanks for the advise.  If there is no mirror then I'll start one here.


Yours Tony.