LWN: Comments on "Announcing Tumbleweed Snapshots"

Announcing Tumbleweed Snapshots

roblucid — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 02:58:49 +0000

And if you avoid updating your Tumbleweed system, how many bugs are you running that could be exploited?

If someone with a poor network connecting is running Tumbleweed rather than LTS, that is a mistake.

Announcing Tumbleweed Snapshots

jospoortvliet — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 09:16:22 +0000

Certainly but containers are an entirely difcerent solution. And note that a big part of the problem to be solved is that to install a 5kb app you might need to update 100 mb of dependencies - a container would never be 5kb so you don't solve much if that is the main concern.

This is a great solution in low-bandwidth situations.

Streams are a nice idea. That is the same as having apache1 and apache2 and python2.4 and python2.6 etc packages isn't it...

Announcing Tumbleweed Snapshots

swilmet — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:01:58 +0000

With containers, the problem doesn't exist, the container normally contains the right versions of the dependencies.

And to install the right versions of the dependencies inside the container, Fedora has taken another approach with the ability to have different “streams” for a certain package (a stream typically tracks a certain version of the upstream software), each stream being decoupled from the Fedora distro version:
https://fedoramagazine.org/nine-reasons-use-fedora-module...