SSL.

[Daniel Robitaille]

> I used to do Updates, but then I began to notice that Debian Updates
> Broke Ubuntu Code. There would be all kinds of little problems cropping
> up, with other applications not working after an update was installed
> for something else. My policy was to try to find out which updates
> caused problems and then, I'd not install them. Lately I'm about 188
> updates behind in 7.10, because it has become difficult to find out
> exactly which ones cause problems, and there does not seem to be a work
> around for ones that do.

"Debian Updates broke Ubuntu code"?  Unless you are running really
unsupported third-party packages, you should have Debian packages on
your Ubuntu computer.  And mix and matching between the two OS is
probably a recipe for disater.

At one point you will probably have to bite the bullet and figure out
exactly why you cannot install all these updates. Someone could
probably argue that these 188 updates contains numerous security
updates that makes you more vulnerable from a security point of view
than the SSL problem we saw with certificates earlier this week.


> Which update fixes this problem with the SSL, so that I still have some
> Armour Clad Protection, while I wait for the modem to Bleepedy Bleep
> download all the rest of the updates. I

there were a bunch of updates this week to packages openssl, libssl0,
openssh-client, ssl-cert among others related to that problem.





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