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Why people don't test development distributions

Why people don't test development distributions

Posted Jul 7, 2009 9:15 UTC (Tue) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Why people don't test development distributions by russell
Parent article: Why people don't test development distributions

Probably because actual prelinking is deferred in a cron job, so you could update glibc and have the system go south hours after when the cron job executed


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Why people don't test development distributions

Posted Jul 7, 2009 9:46 UTC (Tue) by russell (subscriber, #10458) [Link]

That doesn't stop the developer from running is manually. I believe the reason "People don't test development distributions" is because the developers don't either.

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