Re: still Debian 9.1 because of ignoring "stretch-updates" (and security patches)?

[Alexander Smirnov <asmirnov@ilbers.de>]

Hi Gernot!

On 11/16/2017 12:17 PM, Gernot Hillier wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I was quite confused why our Isar version still gives me a Debian 9.1
> image (according to /etc/debian_version) while Debian 9.2 is released
> more than a month ago.
> 
> I finally found that we currently only install packages from
> distribution "stretch" which has nearly all packages from 9.2, but still
> provides old "base-files" including debian_version from 9.1.
> 
> (I installed against deb.debian.org, not our internal mirror.)
> 
> After adding "stretch-updates" to sources.list, I got updates of only
> two packages: "base-files" and "tzdata" - et voilà, we have Debian 9.2.
> 
> After additionally adding "stretch/updates" from security.debian.org, I
> got updates to openssl, dnsmasq and wget.
> 
> While still being puzzled why Debian adds this layer of confusion to the
> world, we should probably honor this and give the user an up-to-date
> image from all three sources, no?
> 
> Or did we make some mistake in Isar setup?

I can't imagine what could be wrong in Isar in context of pure Debian 
packages. Everything related to base system is handled by multistrap 
which performs 'apt-get' from specified in config file upstream mirrors.

Probably user should add all these 3 mirrors to multisrtrap config in 
his meta.

Alex