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The new Red Hat Linux- Not backporting bug fixes can be bad!The new Red Hat Linux- Not backporting bug fixes can be bad!Posted Jul 24, 2003 11:09 UTC (Thu) by croftj (guest, #332)Parent article: The new Red Hat Linux It's a sad day for Red Hat users. This means that when they get the newest version of a program with the latest bug fixes, they are getting the latest features and dependencies which could very well require them to update other packages or worst, break a packages interoperability with other packages on the system (with or without an update). I hope other popular distributions don't follow suit.
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The new Red Hat Linux- Not backporting bug fixes can be bad! Posted Jul 24, 2003 13:15 UTC (Thu) by davecb (subscriber, #1574) [Link] Actually I see this as a slight advantage. As long as RH does good dependancy tracking, as they currently do in their on-line updater ("Red Hat Network"), you will get everything necessary to to stay up to date when you update a component. Back before Unix existed, we had that sort of "continuous update" in Multics, and it was very easy for the SiteSystemAdmins to stay current. Of course, there were also some pretty strong compatability guarantees, too! --dave
The new Red Hat Linux- Not backporting bug fixes can be bad! Posted Jul 24, 2003 16:00 UTC (Thu) by ordonnateur (guest, #6652) [Link] Seems to work ok for Gentoo.
The new Red Hat Linux- Not backporting bug fixes can be bad! Posted Jul 24, 2003 18:54 UTC (Thu) by mongre26 (guest, #4224) [Link] I handle all my dependency issues with Yum (http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/) anyway and redhat network or not that is my preferred method. Especially when it allows me to create a custom redhat distro for my users and keep them up to date with the latest of my packages.Also there will still be security updates, they will just track with the version updates from the originators of the software rather than "redhats" version. This is I think acceptable and manageable with the proper tools for handling dependencies. Redhat could have really left everyone who uses the basic redhat out to dry. With this movement I am hoping they will be able to keep their roots while at the same time building a successful business. Now if only they could make their AS server product a little more up to date I might actually use it. Talk about painful to install on anything but classic SCSI devices. Terrence
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