On Wednesday 09 May 2001 02:32, Craig Sanders wrote: > > Currently there are two usable repositories of Potato packages. > > There's a repository of kernel-related packages to run 2.4.x kernels > > on Potato, and there's a repository of LDAP related packages and other > > things that Wichert is maintaining. > > > > Both of these are good work, but even combined they don't provide what > > I consider to be adequate support for Potato. > > > > I would like a version of Potato that is not entirely frozen. It > > should have updates not only for security reasons but also for > > addition of new programs, and for adding new programs which add > > significant functionality and don't break things (such as Wichert's > > LDAP packages). > > why? > > your suggestion would add a huge load of administrative and maintainence > overhead in order to support a convenient fiction - providing little or > no real benefit. worse than that, it subverts the only real point in > having versioned releases - the ability to know what is included in any > released version.
No. You can get the potato distribution which has the stable versions of software and then selectively apply new versions where you need them. > you also risk creating greater problems back-porting packages from > testing or unstable - they would be divergent packages which don't get > anywhere near the same amount of testing and usage as packages in the > mainline development cycle. > > for example, ask yourself: why is libc6-2.2.2-potato1 (or whatever the > potato version would be) any "better" or "safer" than just installing > libc6-2.2.2 from woody or sid? i can't see how it could be, and all > you've achieved is having two divergent versions of 2.2.2 to support. I didn't anticipate that anyone would want to back-port something as core as libc6. The idea is that you can run the latest postfix (for example) on the old libc6. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page