Re: What is best practice for managing sources.list for security and stability?

Thanks Thijs, Russ and Dan. I appreciate the insight. John Is the approach I outlined the best way to maintain the security and stability of these box's or should I really be using the main repositories as well? We maintain local mirrors of the main and security repos for the varieties

How safely to stop using backports repo?

Good day. I have packages installed from backports repo. Now I want to remove the repo from my source list and therefore use not any more packages from there. My question is on security stuff, as AFAIK I can get into a troublesome situation - in case of simply stopping using updates from the repo

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 00:36 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: I have packages installed from backports repo. Now I want to remove the repo from my source list and therefore use not any more packages from there. My question is on security stuff, as AFAIK I can get into a troublesome situation - in case