RE: Updated Package List

2002-07-31 Thread Jens Hafner
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

Re: Updated Package List

2002-07-31 Thread Markus Fischer
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

Re: Updated Package List

2002-07-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
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,

Updated Package List

2002-07-30 Thread Ahmed Charles
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

2002-07-30 Thread Gareth Bowker
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

Re: Updated Package List

2002-07-30 Thread Ahmed Charles
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

Re: Updated Package List

2002-07-30 Thread Gareth Bowker
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