[ale] Debian Sarge help requested - firewall and apt-get

[Jim Seymour]

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 22:02, Jason Day wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:06:00PM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
> > 2. The easy one I cannot relocate.  What is the correct entry in the
> > sources.list for keeping "Sarge" up to date and what is the correct
> > command line (ex: apt-get ???????  ????????) to use to accomplish
> > that.
>
> The following sources.list should get you going:
>
> -----
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib
> non-free
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
>
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> -----
>
> Note that the deb-src is pointing to unstable; chances are, if you want
> to build a package from source, you'll want the unstable version.
>
> The commands are "apt-get update" to update your local database, and
> "apt-get -u upgrade" to upgrade.  The -u option will show you the
> upgrades first and give you a chance to review what packages are about
> to be installed.  The APT HOWTO is a good source for more information:

Thanks Jason,
	Will this also cover any security issues that are discovered and fixed?  
Also what about the non-us line in the sources list?  Why do I need it?

Thanks again,

Jim Seymour