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Do you need help?

Posted Jun 12, 2005 18:08 UTC (Sun) by jstAusr (guest, #27224)
In reply to: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 CD/DVD images updated (r0a) by ronaldcole
Parent article: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 CD/DVD images updated (r0a)

The file gets used in different ways while the release is in development. The security source lines weren't used during development, but should have been activated prior to release. I wish I were so perfect that I could criticize someone for that.

Reread the announcement above. Reread the paragraph that starts with "If you have already...". Post a message stating why that paragraph is unclear to you, when taken as a portion of the rest of the announcement.

Another option would be to re-download the first CD, but that seems like it would be alot of work to fix one line in /etc/apt/sources.list, wouldn't it?

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Do you need help?

Posted Jun 13, 2005 1:39 UTC (Mon) by lordsutch (subscriber, #53) [Link]

And, if you use jigdo, I doubt downloading the fixed image would be more than a few kilobytes (mostly to get the updated .jigdo file).

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Posted Jun 13, 2005 2:50 UTC (Mon) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link]

> Reread the announcement above. Reread the paragraph that starts with "If you have already...".

Which is useful if you've installed a system already, but useless if you're intending to burn and distribute CDs. In that case, you need to redownload (or ideally, rebuild, if you used jigdo) CD 1.