Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> Let me paraphrase, just to make sure I got this right. It's so much > what I expected to hear, that I want to > sure. > > At a Major release of a distro, its a no hold barred approach. They > probably just grab the newest. This > would be the equivalent of a Major release of Solaris, but we don't do > those. > > In an Update release of a distro, they apply only very minor, distro > specific "patches". By the proposed > Uncommitted levels, this seems pretty much what we would do in a > Patch/Micro release. > > Do I have this right? > > - jek3 Here's a concrete example: I used to have SUSE 10.0 on one of my laptops. It had KDE 3.4.2. I then upgraded to SUSE 10.2. To me, this seems like a minor upgrade. Although YaST2 identified it as an upgrade, this was, in fact, not an upgrade, it was a full overwrite. Nothing from SUSE 10.0 was preserved, KDE was "upgraded" (overwritten) to "3.5.5 release 45.2" (which is not an official KDE release, it's KDE 3.5.5 + SUSE). Half of the KDE applications delivered with SUSE 10.0 and KDE 3.4.2 disappeared in SUSE 10.2 and KDE 3.5.5, although i requested to install the "Full KDE". I tried to install a KDE (3.4.2) rpm from SUSE 10.0. I had to use --force --nodeps to get it through. It did not work, it crashed on startup. I seems that in the Linux world, any number change is a Major Upgrade. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman Sun Microsystems, Inc. Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM
