RE: Updated Package List
Hi there, some of you suggested to remove portmap in order close some more port and thereby increase security. Since I never really understood what the pormapper was doing, I though I could do without it. However, once I tried to uninstall the package with dselect, I got a dependency issue saying that netbase suggests on portmap. Is that something I can ignore? Thanks for your help.
Re: Updated Package List
To my knowledge you can safely ignore it. I'm always purging the package on every server installation I did since I know my servers don't use rpc at all. - Markus On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 08:46:38AM +0200, Jens Hafner wrote : some of you suggested to remove portmap in order close some more port and thereby increase security. Since I never really understood what the pormapper was doing, I though I could do without it. However, once I tried to uninstall the package with dselect, I got a dependency issue saying that netbase suggests on portmap. Is that something I can ignore? Thanks for your help. -- GnuPG Key: http://guru.josefine.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc Fabian hwaaraSick: unsignificant hwaaraSick Fabian: can you be more precise? Fabian hwaaraSick: negligible
Re: Updated Package List
Jens Hafner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: some of you suggested to remove portmap in order close some more port and thereby increase security. Since I never really understood what the pormapper was doing, I though I could do without it. However, once I tried to uninstall the package with dselect, I got a dependency issue saying that netbase suggests on portmap. Is that something I can ignore? Thanks for your help. Yes. Only if a package (pre-)depends on another package you can not ignore it. Packages that are merely recommended or suggested should always be removable without breaking things (unless you specifically activated functionality that depends on the presence of such packages of course). -- Olaf MeeuwissenEPSON KOWA Corporation, ECS GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 LPIC-2 -- I hack, therefore I am -- BOFH
Updated Package List
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? Ahmed Charles
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
Re: Updated Package List
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 debian-security@lists.debian.org 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
Re: Updated Package List
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:15:49PM -0400, Ahmed Charles wrote: 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 :-) ) Ah, right :) Add the line: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, then run update. This will download the latest stable (woody) security update list for you. Upgrade will download and install the actual packages for you. Gareth
