[plug] Debian Security updates on CD-ROM?

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian-security is a good security mirror.

On 5/17/06, Alastair Irvine <alastair at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> My laptop has Debian Sarge (v3.1) installed.  I recently ran
>   apt-get upgrade
> (in test mode) and found out the following:
>   146 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 164MB of archives.
>
> The scary thing is that I (mostly) only have packages from Sarge disk 1
> installed.  Imagine how many packages would have to be upgraded if I
> had limitless disk space and had installed from the first couple of
> disks??  (Or a DVD.)
>
> Does anyone have interest in being involved with a PLUG project to
> develop an up-to-date CD-ROM of Security updates, to be brought along
> to installfests?  I imagine it would be practical to use apt-cdrom to
> get info from this hypothetical CD-ROM into the available package
> lists on a given machine.
>
> (Meanwhile, I suppose I could gakk from a repository at UWA whilst on
> campus.)
>
> My Debian Security updates are handled by the following line
> in /etc/apt/sources.list:
>   deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
> Is there an equivalent repository on WAIX?
>
> PS -- See <http://www.debian.org/security/> for general info.
>
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