On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:58:33AM -0400, James Kosin wrote: > > E) See if any Fedora Core engineers are interested in, out of the goodness > > of their hearts, building updates for their packages in Legacy when it > > isn't much extra work -- and enabling them to easily do so. > The only problem with this is WHY ever go with the latest FC6 or 7 or > whatever if you can have the packages updated to the latest even if > you have FC2.
I really don't think that's a major concern. Most packages wouldn't be updated to the newest version -- just the ones where that's the easiest thing to do. > Legacy is all about security-updates!!! ONLY!!! > The policy is update with PATCHES if at all possible. From RH even > better; otherwise fall back to other sources for patches such as the > development groups, etc. Only if EVERYTHING else fails, you can > update to the latest stable release to fix the flaw. Right now, everything is clearly failing. -- Matthew Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
