Re: [Sheflug] Re: redhat 9.0

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:45, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:
> I'm glad I'm not the only one that understand that. It certainly looks
> as though RedHat will QA packages- but the emphasis won't be on keeping
> software stable (e.g. if there is a bug-fix in Apache it might not be
> backported any more, instead Apache might be upgraded - and this may
> break things).

I don't think that's actually true. Fedora will rev at much the same
rate as the previous edition of Red Hat, and they do say they will
provide timely updates. It's actually easier to apply a patch than
provide a complete update - your example of backporting is slightly
bogus; most projects offer a stable/development dual track approach, and
provide patches for the stable branch themselves. It's quite rare that a
security fix requires a backport - I don't expect Fedora to package
non-release code.

> For anyone not scared of testing updated first, and not scared to go off
> and recompile if RH's updates break everything then Fedora isn't really
> a real problem.

That's probably not quite a fair reflection of the situation.

Cheers,

Alex.

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