warty-updates repository?

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Mon Jan 3 22:49:30 UTC 2005


On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 08:54:28PM -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:

> While looking at the list of available repository for Warty
> (http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/) I discovered  tonight that
> my apt source list was only pointing at warty and warty-security, and
> not warty-updates.  So what  is that 3rd repository?

The warty-updates repository contains non-security bug fixes for Warty.
These are optional, and not installed by default.

They are separate because security fixes should always be installed, but
some users may or may not want other bug fixes.

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 - mdz




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