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Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 12:23:27PM -0500, Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
> I am mainly a Centos user and am quite a novice when it comes to Debian and
> I have a computer which is currently running Stretch 9.6 and I recently
> install apt 1.4.9.
> 
> With the release of Stretch 9.7 and because of the recent vulnerability
> discovered in apt I'm not sure how to proceed.
> 

In your case there is actually nothing to be done.

This is just a point release and is only interesting for installs.
You are running Stretch already and any update automatically pulls in new
updates (as you have already done with apt).


> According to the instructions in the Debian Security Advisory they advise
> disabling redirects which might
> "break some proxies when used against security.debian.org", not sure exactly
> what this means to me,

You could update, couldn't you? So you are fine.

> 
> and further on it says "For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem
> has been fixed in version 1.4.9"
> 
> I just don't know what direction I should take, so I'd appreciate some
> insight and pointers on how I should proceed.
> 

Stay put :)


-H

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Henning Follmann           | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com

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I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Pete Geenhuizen <pete@geenhuizen.net> - 2019-01-25 18:40 +0100
  Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2019-01-25 19:00 +0100
  Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-25 19:00 +0100
  Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-01-25 19:10 +0100
  Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-01-25 20:20 +0100
    Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-01-25 20:20 +0100
      Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-01-25 20:30 +0100
        Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-01-25 20:40 +0100
          Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-05-25 09:20 +0200
      Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-25 20:40 +0100
        Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-01-25 20:50 +0100
      Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Katnip <katnip62@pm.me> - 2019-01-26 00:50 +0100
        Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-26 01:40 +0100
          Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2019-01-26 02:10 +0100
          Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-01-26 03:10 +0100
          Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Katnip <katnip62@pm.me> - 2019-01-26 03:30 +0100
            Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-01-26 03:40 +0100
  Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Pete Geenhuizen <pete@geenhuizen.net> - 2019-01-25 21:40 +0100
    Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2019-01-25 21:50 +0100

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