Test -- Where have all the horses gone?

[David Bandel]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:38:41 -0600, Michael Hipp <michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> David Bandel wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:58:11 -0500 (EST), Net Llama!
> > <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
> >>OK, i talked to uriah.  In a nutshell they got sick of waiting for debian
> >>to do a major release, and they needed a distro that released early &
> >>often & predictably.  The problem with waiting for debian is that when
> >>they did release, since it was so long since the last major release, a ton
> >>of stuff on the servers were broken (there were 3 glibc changes, at least
> >>2 gcc changes, and massive amounts of other 'lesser' changes).
> >>
> >
> >
> > Well, this is true if and only if you used exclusively stable.  I use
> > testing and have no such problems.  Now unstable is just that, but I
> > find testing to be sufficiently bleeding edge to keep up, but not so
> > bleednig edge as to have stuff constantly borken.
> 
> How do you guys get security updates for anything other than stable?
> 

Hmm, let's just grep /etc/apt/sources.list for security:

deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free

Yep, there it is.  Unstable doesn't have any such animal.  By the time
it's old enough to have an exploit, it's in testing.  Unstable moves
forward too fast to leave a security expoit open for very long.

cron-apt and upgrade-system handle nightly and weekly updates,
normally with no intervention (although I also check once a week for
new packages and packages that need a helping hand).  Over 17,000
binary packages.  More than I can keep up with.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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