ANN: Closing AC

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 03:54:20PM +0100, Cz at rny wrote:
> Dnia Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:52:49 +0100, Adam Gołębiowski  
> <adamg at biomerieux.pl> napisał:
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 02:45:22PM +0100, Marcin Król wrote:
> >> 1) Maintain my machines, by simply doing poldek --upgrade-dist out of
> >> stable tree. Occasionally there will be need to do some manual upgrades
> >> like from postgres 8.0 to 8.1 which requires database dump/restore. Now
> >> lets assume that we will stay with current distro politics + we will
> >> release new version every year. So once a year I'll probably have to
> >> reinstall all the machines because version Z was released and X has
> >> reached an EOL.
> 
> All of that is true - as long as from time to time we'll bake some iso,  
> everything is fine for me.
> >
> > What about some groundbraking change like gcc update (breaking BC)?
> 
> That'd be a point to make an iso - perfect for making some 'version',  
> 'release', 'snapshot' or whatever You call it - an iso.

And what can I do with ISO full of security holes (or other serious
bugs), with only binary-incompatible updates on ftp?

"always in development" works good only for periods of time limited by
"big transitions".


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