On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:50:55PM +0000, Karanbir Singh enlightened us: > Something to talk about while we prep C-5 for release... > > There were some packages that were updated along with release, I can > imagine this was since the tree must have been frozen a while before > actual release upstream. However, we dont have that problem - the tree > hasent been released. > > 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 ? > > One thing that I would be very hesitant to update would be the kernel, > since updating that would imply updating the installer kernel as well. > Which is going to cause lots of issues since its known that vendors and > support people will ask for specific kernels at specific times ( eg. > installed with x.y.z and 5.0.0 ) > > - KB I vote we stick with upstream and just make the updates available immediately in the updates repo. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263