Delay? Looks bad for Fedora

law at redhat.com law at redhat.com
Tue Nov 4 00:15:05 UTC 2003


In message <1067904606.19054.1.camel at ripley>, Ben Steeves writes:
 >On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:57, Warren Togami wrote:
 >
 >> I personally plan on running Fedora on all my servers. I beliuve, 
 >> because I work on it, that Fedora will on the average be of equal or 
 >> higher quality than RH in the past. To me Fedora wont be very different 
 >> than the earlier RHL except a different name, more frequent bugfix
 >> packages between releases, and a larger package selection from Fedora 
 >> Extras.
 >
 >One question: how much work will the migration from one release of FC to
 >the next be?  I know that going from FCT1 to FCT2 to FCT3 has so far
 >been nothing more than a 'yum update', at least for me.  Can I
 >reasonably expect more of the same?  
It will likely depend on what changes.  Consider what happens if for 
example we need to update GCC and the update has an ABI change.  The
only way to get a self-consistent system is to effectively update the
entire system with binaries built with the new compiler.

jeff





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