[tech] potato-proposed-updates

[Nick Bannon]

There's been some security updates since Debian 2.2r0 came out -
the recommended way to get them is to apt-get thus ;

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

(directly from there, without a mirror)

Now - firewalling means that's not really an option for mermaid, say,
but there this is a potato-proposed-updates directory in the normal
mirror, which is where updates go pending release in Debian 2.2r1.
There was a recent nasty NIS bug in ypbind, which prompted me to
add this to mermaid/mooneye's sources.list ;
deb file:/debian/debian dists/potato-proposed-updates/

...and try an upgrade. Notes:

base-passwd wanted to rearrange UIDs
 -> denied (at least for now)
mermaid tried to update its kernel
 -> echo kernel-image-2.2.17 hold|dpkg --set-selections
mailman on mooneye updated itself rather verbosely
 -> this message can test it ::-)

Nick.

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