[BBLISA] Unix package management

Mike Sprague mfs at komerex.com
Fri Apr 16 16:24:28 EDT 2010


Dewey Sasser wrote:
> Mike Sprague wrote:
>   
>> The short answer is you should use the volatile repository for apps that
>> change quickly, such as ClamAV, SA, etc.  These types of apps need to
>> change quickly to keep up with the times and volatile was created as a
>> way to provide them but still keep 'stable' stable.  :-)
>>   
>>     
> Mike,
>
> Out of curiosity, is this "you" meaning "user of Debian" or "maintainer 
> of Debian"?
>
>   
I meant "you" as in "user of Debian".  :-)

I stick this in my /etc/apt/sources:

# Volatile
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
contrib non-free

M

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Michael F. Sprague
mfs at komerex.com



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