On 6/21/05, Chuck Anderson <cra wpi edu> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:33:48AM -0600, Tom Lisjac wrote:
Suggestion: Functional changes that can break existing installs
shouldn't be provided as normal updates... they should be included in
the next OS version. Otherwise, if the update policy is perceived to
put running servers at risk, it won't be long before the community
stops taking Fedora seriously.
That isn't the goal of Fedora, though. Updates are specifically NOT
backported to older trees. Instead, you get the update for the latest
OS release, rebuilt for the older releases.
Thanks for the clarification. Could you refer me to the place where
this policy is stated? The only reference I can find that might allude
to it is item 3 on this page:
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html
Woudn't it be better to simply stop pushing SELinux updates to older
versions rather then continuing to apply new and possibliy
incompatible features of the newer release?
If you want a more stable
tree with backported fixes, then use RHEL.
We can't afford RHEL. If updating installed Fedoras is going to cause
them to become unstable after a new version release, we'll have no
choice but to migrate to another OS.
Best regards,
-Tom