diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20101006/000910.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20101006/000910.html | 107 |
1 files changed, 107 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20101006/000910.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20101006/000910.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7293f661b --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20101006/000910.html @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle? + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20How%20will%20be%20the%20realese%20cycle%3F&In-Reply-To=%3C201010061421.00225.bgmilne%40multilinks.com%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="000888.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="000913.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?</H1> + <B>Buchan Milne</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20How%20will%20be%20the%20realese%20cycle%3F&In-Reply-To=%3C201010061421.00225.bgmilne%40multilinks.com%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?">bgmilne at multilinks.com + </A><BR> + <I>Wed Oct 6 15:21:00 CEST 2010</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000888.html">[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000913.html">[Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#910">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#910">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#910">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#910">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>On Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:04:57 Tux99 wrote: +><i> Quote: Gustavo Giampaoli wrote on Tue, 05 October 2010 16:01 +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > In fact, what you need to define is what's the "core" system. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Then you could see "core system" will be updated every X month. +</I>><i> > Example: you decide to update core system every 12 month. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > So, "core system 2011" will last 12 month. But during those 12 month +</I>><i> > you provide constantly updates / upgrades for all the rest of the +</I>><i> > software that isn't part to "core". +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > And of course, for "core system 2011" updates / bug fix / security +</I>><i> > patches / etc. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > During those 12 month, you can work in "core system 2012". +</I> +What constitutes the "core" ? + +BTW., this was tried in Mandriva before. The idea was to have kernel and +toolchain be common between two different releases of Mandriva. However, it was +abandoned in order to have support for new hardware in the next release .... + +><i> > Here, the "rolling" part is the "non-core" software that is constantly +</I>><i> > updated. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > This way "core system" becomes more stable every day during the whole +</I>><i> > year. But without getting older because in every moment you have the +</I>><i> > latest GIMP or Thunderbird available. +</I> +So it is impossible that a new xulrunner can break other apps? Or that a gimp +update requires newer libraries which could potentially require rebuilds of +many other apps (well, this is better than on Fedora, as we have a sane +library policy). + +><i> This is very similar to what I just suggested so I perfectly agree with +</I>><i> you. +</I> +As a package maintainer in Mandriva, one who has submitted a number of +packages to backports, I don't find much of a problem with the current Mandriva +setup. + +Please provide *real* problems with the Mandriva backports setup (besides "my +favourite app is not up-to-date in backports", unless you have filed a bug to +request it and there was no technical obstacle to it). + +Regards, +Buchan +</PRE> + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000888.html">[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000913.html">[Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#910">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#910">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#910">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#910">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |