Re: Vulnerability and Patch-Management in Linux (and other Unix)

"Jason Spears" <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:50:15 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:43 PM, John Kunkel <[email protected]> wrote:
> One word of caution with apt is if you use stable it will get major version
> updates when they move to a new stable project. With later installs of etch
> they have changed the default source.list to use etch instead of stable.
> This prevents any issues when project moves happen. I am sure Ubuntu will
> have something similar.


You can always update your sources.list to replace 'stable' by sarge,
etch or whatever you want to track.

Jason