Ok this does seem dumb to me. Mandrake provide there distro on the web so if
you want to update it you can just download the distro and select update on
the installer. They also provide security updates which is more than some
places. That is support.
If Mandrake provided updated packages for all the different version they had
made then there would be no reason to by the next version and so mandrake
would just go belly up and we don't want that.
Also alot of the packages (non-system packages like the kernel) from the
cooker do work on other versions you jusst need the SRPM.
Mark Hillary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent Danen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Xfree 4.0.2
> On Wed Dec 20, 2000 at 11:47:16PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> > > > We do use MandrakeUpdate for security updates. It already costs
resources
> > > > because changing something means:
> > > >
> > > > - doing it for a number of old distribs (7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 6.1)
> > >
> > > Don't forget 6.0... we still support it for security updates.
> >
> > Yep, sorry vincent, i was not sure for our very old products.
> >
> > This is more arguments for me :-).
>
> I thought it might be. =) And more arguments for me, too, because I
> would end up doing most of this back-porting I'm sure (and I just
> don't have the time to do it).
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