John Goerzen wrote:
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:09:54PM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote:
ciol wrote:
The problem is that Debian doesn't speak a lot about nice features like
volatile and backports, for instance in the official web site, where it's
difficult to see the links.
The... err...
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 10:26:22AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
[volatile and backports]
As it is, it is unclear to me who is building those packages, of what
quality they are, and what kind of security support they are receiving.
Volatile was set up by Andreas Barth, and is maintained by Andreas
To make the picture more complete, not only desktop needs current
software. The Debian on server lacks sometimes too.
Few examples: PHP5, bunch of Clamav-related packages for proxy and mail
interaction, Squid3. They're in Etch, however if released as official
update of Debian, should do.
* Mgr. Peter Tuharsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-08-28 12:05]:
To make the picture more complete, not only desktop needs current
software. The Debian on server lacks sometimes too.
Few examples: PHP5, bunch of Clamav-related packages for proxy and mail
interaction, Squid3. They're in Etch,
On Aug 28, Martin Wuertele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whoo no way! I don't want to updated my servers more than once 18-24
months. I don't need php5, specs says php4 and php5, squid does it's job
very good and clamav from volatile rounds the package up.
Then don't.
The problem for people like
Martin Wuertele wrote:
Clamav is in volatile, php5 in backports, haven't checked squid3.
The problem is that Debian doesn't speak a lot about nice features like
volatile and backports, for instance in the official web site, where it's
difficult to see the links.
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Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Aug 28, Martin Wuertele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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You don't run a lot of servers if you want to update them more
frequently.
You don't run a lot of servers either if you never need versions of many
different packages
* Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-08-28 12:35]:
You don't run a lot of servers either if you never need versions of many
different packages more recent than a couple of years.
That's when backports and chroots comes in.
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On Aug 28, Martin Wuertele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You don't run a lot of servers either if you never need versions of many
different packages more recent than a couple of years.
That's when backports and chroots comes in.
Backports have dubious quality and do not get real security support.
ciol wrote:
Clamav is in volatile, php5 in backports, haven't checked squid3.
... squid3 is in *gosh* testing.
The problem is that Debian doesn't speak a lot about nice features like
volatile and backports, for instance in the official web site, where it's
difficult to see the links.
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:09:54PM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote:
ciol wrote:
The problem is that Debian doesn't speak a lot about nice features like
volatile and backports, for instance in the official web site, where it's
difficult to see the links.
The... err... issue is that these
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