On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Gregg C Levine wrote:
Hello from Gregg C Levine I've been reading, and remembering to apply all of the upgraded packages that Slackware has been creating for itself based on the numerous security advisories that they quote. This is for Intel mind, but I surmise that Mark has been doing the same for S/390. Now the question: Are all the other certified vendor/distributors for S/390 ported Linux following these advisories? And releasing upgraded packages?
You can get the Debian 3.0r3 patches from us, and 3.0r4 will be available soon. If you've bought support from us we will gladly ship you CDs for a local security mirror, although that's really not recommended if it's possible for you to just hit security.debian.org (since that's updated faster than we can make CD sets). However, since many shops running Linux on 390 do not have access from their S/390s to the public Internet, we *can* provide the service if necessary (and we're being paid to do so).
Security.debian.org does indeed track security fixes for all architectures. And if you *have* security.debian.org in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, then all you need to do is run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade to get the latest and greatest.
Adam
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