Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Posted Sep 2, 2014 22:05 UTC (Tue) by jondo (guest, #69852)In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by raven667
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Could a distro be frozen to such an extent that only packages get updated that pass such strong ABI testing? Quasi "Debian superstable".
Reality kicks in: This would simply stop all updates ...
Posted Sep 3, 2014 15:05 UTC (Wed)
by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
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Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Nah, that's pretty much why you have today backports of security fixes without changing the version of software, this is the service that Redhat makes their millions on.