Hi Alasdair, Good to list the security and bug fixes addressed in this stabilization and what will end up in the live/install distro versus IPS.
How does this relate to Sol11x 2010.11 in its provided fixes? Backports from it? Newer? ~ Ken Mays --- On Sat, 1/15/11, Alasdair Lumsden <alasdai...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Alasdair Lumsden <alasdai...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> > Date: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 7:18 AM > On 15 Jan 2011, at 12:05, Dmitry G. > Kozhinov wrote: > > > Alasdair, > > > > I understand that the proposed stable branch would be > minimalistic to save developer time an effort, but isn't > there a danger of the opposite - that having two branches > would nearly double the labor amount? > > Hi Dmitry, > > It wouldn't be a minimal distro. We would simply republish > oi_148 to /stable, then only update a small set of packages > with security updates. > > The work involved would be backporting security fixes, > recompiling the software and publishing the fixed package to > the /stable branch. > > It would in no way double the effort involved. > > Regards, > > Alasdair > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss