On 11/8/2016 6:27 AM, Dipal Bhatt wrote: > Thanks really Leon very much w/ a very resourceful info. esp release notes > helps across minor versions. So, this is for a friend of mine, and I have > been told that they will not currently consider updating their userland > from 6.3 to 6.8 but only selected few packages. The picture seems to be > that their company runs a lot of apps on 6.3 userland and might have some > specific dependencies, etc., but more importantly, this environment has > been running in customers' environment for quite some time esp 1000s of > customers, so updating system properly is not easily feasible for this > scenario. However, they can hand pick packages seem fit for update that > can be pushed out using their internal code fixes and updates for end > users. SO, this seems to be the problem of trying to hand pick certain > packages to be updated, if feasible w/o much adverse effects. thats a whole lot of words that boil down to nothing, they won't update because they don't want to, and are too lazy ? -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz