sorry I didn't put it clear in my last post. 1) which distribution to use: stable or unstable? you can use unstable, but when there is security hole with the packages, the fix is not so easy to get (http://security.debian.org is for stable only)
2) for stable users, this risk exists if you upgrade the kernel: you may need to upgrade the packages too, quoted from http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.ht ml: "A 2.4 kernel is also included in this release for optional installation by users. Although the 2.4 branch is considered by the kernel developers to be a stable kernel branch, the Debian GNU/Linux release team judged it not to have reached sufficient maturity for inclusion as the default kernel in this release. " Mo -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fedyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:36 AM To: Mo Zhen Guang Cc: Xeno Campanoli; [email protected] Subject: Re: Say, wheres 2.2.20? On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:11:34PM +0800, Mo Zhen Guang wrote: > as always, security update may be troublesome with testing distribution. > stable is much easier > Mo > Version: 2.2.20-2 Provides: kernel-image Depends: fileutils (>= 4.0) What version of fileutils is in potato? All that the package supplies is the kernel. It will be as stable as any other kernel package wheather it is in stable or not (it's the official 2.2.20) so what's your prob? Maybe you should check before you assume that just because it's in testing that it's not stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
