On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Greg Lindahl greg@blekko.com wrote:
I'm here posting about this issue because I'm responding to this question:
What stability problems would you expect from updates beyond a point release? The whole point of an 'enterprise' distribution is the effort they make to not break api's across a whole major-rev's life. Would an upstream system break if you selectively update packages beyond a point release without doing a full update?
The fact that upstream hasn't tested these rpm combinations means that there's risk involved.
Updates can't be tested against your local applications either - which is what you'd care most about. But the risk of breakage is small because upstream doesn't make changes that break API's as a matter of policy across major revisions - which is the whole point of 'enterprise' versions. If you don't change an API, you don't need to re-test against everything that uses it.