-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02-05-2005 15:34, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 02-05-2005 14:09, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Knut Yrvin wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> * Sarge installation of Skolelinux from scratch >>>> >>>> Today it's possible to use, and maintain a Sarge based >>>> Skolelinux installed from scratch with some adjusting. Security >>>> patches is available. > > >>> For a school starting (moreorless) from scratch with Skolelinux, >>> is this the recommended approach now? > > > I believe it is _not_ recommended for schools. > > And I am not sure what is meant by "security patches is available - > Debian does _not_ yet officially provide security maintainance of > sarge!
For those not subscribed to debian-devel-announce@, as of now sarge _is_ officially security-maintained: On 03-05-2005 21:46, Steve Langasek wrote: > Joey Schulze of the security team has given the thumbs-up for > official security support for sarge as of the time of the freeze. > Which is now. Of interest is also Steve's very next paragraph, pretty much saying similar things as I did about not yet using this for schools yet: > With security support in place, adventurous users can begin testing > the upgrade path from woody to sarge. Their feedback will be used > for further bugfixing of packages, and to start preparing release > notes. Currently, this is tempered by known bug #278495, which > affects perl when upgrading on a sizable percentage of systems. We > hope this bug will be addressed soon, so that we can start getting > good upgrade reports in ASAP. I recommend that Skolelinux only officially recommend using officially released Skolelinux, and that any interim testing releases (or worse: direct use of the ever-changing testing and unstable package repositories) is used at own risk - including the risk of unpleasant surprises (like configuration tweaks overwritten or packages removed) when upgrading to the next official release of Skolelinux. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nÃr: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCd97zn7DbMsAkQLgRAtIuAKCXOvNLOhvRQQm6BVnqsfcAKs7fbACcCpMq jcgsUorjxucJI4HdJfT2a30= =kGTp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
