Objectivo

A distribuição Debian é conhecida por dar prioridade à segurança, dando por isso preferência a software mais antigo, mas melhor testado. No entanto, a segurança de alguns pacotes depende da sua actualização constante. Tal é o caso dos pacotes anti-vírus e anti-spam. Para responder a essa necessidade foi criado um repositório de software actualizado chamado "debian-volatile". É conveniente adicionar este repositório à lista dos disponíveis.

Configuração

A descrição do repositório deve ser adicionada à lista existente em /etc/apt/sources.list:

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main

deb http://ftp.pt.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://ftp.pt.debian.org/debian/ lenny main

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main

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

Verificação

Ao actualizar a lista de pacotes disponíveis deverão constatar os novos repositórios:

server:~# aptitude update
Hit http://ftp.pt.debian.org lenny Release.gpg
Get:1 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile Release.gpg
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.pt.debian.org lenny/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile Release
Get:2 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release [40.8kB]
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/contrib Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/non-free Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Get:3 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages [17.4kB]
Get:4 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages [20B]
Get:5 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Packages [20B]
Ign http://ftp.pt.debian.org lenny/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.pt.debian.org lenny/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://ftp.pt.debian.org lenny Release
Hit http://ftp.pt.debian.org lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.pt.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.pt.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Fetched 58.4kB in 7s (7753B/s)
Reading package lists... Done