Good Day, Thanks for the response but my question was alike vague, what i meant to ask was about the security updates, if a package list containing the new ones was available anywhere for download (thats why I didnt post it to the regular user list, sorry, cant believe I didnt mention the security part :-) )
Thanks allot Ahmed Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gareth Bowker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ahmed Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-security users" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 6:58 PM Subject: Re: Updated Package List > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:31:48PM -0400, Ahmed Charles wrote: > > Good Day, > > > > Is there an updated package list that i can download manually so that my > > dselect is up-to-date? > > > > And if there is, where can i get it? > > dselect has an "Update" option which will grab the latest packages list. It > does this by looking at /etc/apt/sources.list . This file tells dselect > (along with all the debian packaging tools, such as aptitude and apt) where > to get these files from. The file should look something like: > > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > > take a look at the sources.list man pages for more info. Also, you might find > you'll get better and/or quicker responses sending messages to debian-user > rather than debian-security, as this isn't really a security-related question > (certainly not directly, anyway). > > Gareth >
