C. Halstead wrote:
----- "James Olin Oden" james.oden@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/15/07, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
So, what does everyone thing ? Should we release the tree with the updates rolled in ? or should we release the tree exactly as
upstream
did, and also provide the updates to go alongside - but in the
updates
repo ?
As a consumer of CentOS release's my point of view is that having it all rolled in as much as possible would be better. OTOH, I can see from your point of view that mimicking their tree religously would have some benefits too.
Cheers...james
If the updates are rolled into the initial C5 release then we've lost all ability to ever do a base install that directly mimics the upstream release. For most folks that doesn't matter, but for some of us having that ability is pretty important. In a few weeks there'll be more updates anyway.
Maybe a copy of the outdated version could be archived somewhere for the unlikely event of someone ever wanting its unfixed bugs again - and the rest of us could have the spiffy new version as a default...
As for working with driver disks - the RHEL kernels are supposed to have stable binary driver interfaces for the life of the distribution. And if an update kernel doesn't work with a needed vendor driver, there wasn't much point in getting past the install anyway.