On 8 April 2014 09:28, Charles Plessy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Le Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 09:02:12AM +0200, Anders Ingemann a écrit :
> >
> > It's hanging because I never got an answer to my question: What's the
> > difference between:
> >
> > http://security.debian.org/  wheezy/updates ...
> > and
> > http://http.debian.net/  wheezy-updates ...
> > ?
>
> Sorry for this...
>
> Short answer: they are different, and the ressemblance is only
> coincidental.
>
> Each lines indicate an URL and a distribution.
>
> http://http.debian.net/ is a mirror of the Debian archive.  The
> wheezy-updates
> distribution is there to together with wheezy, wheezy-backports, jessie,
> sid,
> etc.  It contains the packages that will be part of the next point update.
>  This
> inlcudes security updates, but not immediately after their release.
>
> http:/security.debian.org/ is not a section of the Debian archive, it is
> an
> archive on its own.  If I remember correctly, the rationale for using a
> separate archive is that for a quick diffusion of security updates, it was
> better to avoid the lag caused by the mirroring of the regular archive.
>  For
> wheezy, the distribution to pick is wheezy/updates.
>
> Both lines are really needed.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> --
> Charles Plessy
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>


Aha! Thanks for the detailed explanation Charles. I'll merge this tonight
and put it in the master branch.

> Have a nice day
I will ;-)

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