------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian adds Security Support for AMD64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] August 11th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050811 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Debian Project adds Security Support for AMD64 The Debian project adds security support for the stable amd64 distribution. This port is not yet part of the Debian archive, but it will be included in unstable/testing soon and users already benefit from security updates distributed via security.debian.org. A special advisory will be released soon by the security team to cover newly built amd64 packages for all security updates since the release of sarge. These packages will replace already existing files in the proposed-updates directory in the amd64 archive. Because the project has released version 3.1 (codename: sarge) of its distribution without the amd64 port due to technical reasons, the porters have released their packages on a different server with only minimal differences to the Debian 3.1 archive. This port will be included in the unstable and testing distribution soon. As a first step to adding full support for the amd64 port the ftpmasters have added this architecture to security.debian.org and connected a new build daemon to the archive. Future security advisories will therefore list 12 architectures for the sarge release and users of this port will be able to use the regular source for security updates as well. Future Plans for full AMD64 Support Several issues have to be resolved before the amd64 port can be fully included. Most importantly the ftpmaster service needs to be moved to its final destination, as its former hosting offer has been terminated and it is now hosted in a temporary location. A detailed list of things to do follows: 1. Add security support 2. Move ftpmaster to its final location 3. Implement the archive split 4. Add amd64 architecture 5. Rebuild the archive with regards to amd64 6. Eventually have full support for amd64 Resources for the AMD64 Port Security Updates deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main CD and DVD Images http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/ AMD64 Packages deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian main AMD64 Mirror List http://amd64.debian.net/README.mirrors.html Differences to Debian 3.1 http://amd64.debian.net/docs/package_changes.txt About Debian The Debian project is an organisation of many developers who volunteer their time and effort, collaborating via the Internet. Their tasks include maintaining and updating Debian GNU/Linux which is a free distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system. Debian's dedication to Free Software, its non-profit nature, and its open development model makes it unique among GNU/Linux distributions. Contact Information For further information, please send email to the Debian Press Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or visit the Debian homepage at <http://www.debian.org/>. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
