[GTALUG] Debian postgresql security advisory
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Aug 16 12:01:42 EDT 2016
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:12:43AM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> The security advisory was against "postgresql-9.4", but I updated
> "postgresql" - that seems reasonable, right? No, you literally have
> to do "apt-get install postgresql-9.4" - with the numbers - to install
> the correct package. The installation of two separate packages like
> that seems counter-intuitive and misleading ... although I can also
> guess at the reasons for it. But one would hope that upgrading one
> would haul the other with it. <sigh>
Doing 'apt-get dist-upgrade' would make sense for getting all the fixes.
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Len Sorensen
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