Ubuntu discussing moving to LTS + rolling release model [LWN.net]

Ubuntu discussing moving to LTS + rolling release model

Posted Mar 1, 2013 13:54 UTC (Fri) by redden0t8 (guest, #72783)
In reply to: Ubuntu discussing moving to LTS + rolling release model by zlynx
Parent article: Ubuntu discussing moving to LTS + rolling release model

I'll be curious to see how Ubuntu handles it. It's definitely an inherent problem in a rolling release distro, but it's far from insurmountable. Of all distro's, I'd expect Ubuntu to try and tackle it since it'll the first(?) non-power user distro to try a rolling release model.

Example:
Keep configuration file conversion information separate from the versioned packages. Then if a user tries upgrading package foo-10 to foo-14, but there was a configuration file conversion between foo<=12 and foo>=13, the package manager knows to still do it.

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Ubuntu discussing moving to LTS + rolling release model

Posted Mar 2, 2013 10:15 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

http://opensuse.org/tumbleweed would be the first. But it isn't exactly what Ubuntu proposes or what debian has - it is more a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too solution and not as truly rolling as say Gentoo is.