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Florin wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buchan Milne) writes:

>>So how soon are these going to be available officially? I need to decide
>>between 9.1 and 9.2 for a new server for a client ... and it's going to
>>need dhcp and shorewall ...
>
>
> Hi,
>
> These are already official packages, otherwise you wouldn't know about it
> ...

IMHO, official packages for a release are in:
Mandrake/<release>
and
Mandrake/updates/<release>
on the official mirrors.

like:
ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/

> We're about to finish the distro for the 64 architecture ... and then
> cooker will reopen again ... so the packages will be updated ... in the
> meanwhile use my web site .. if you need those packages ...

IMHO this should not be necessary, broken packages which can be fixed
should be fixed by bugfix updates. I would like to know when these
packages will be available as official updates for 9.2. Otherwise, when
does the official time for starting support for 9.2 start? It seems at
present real support for a distro can only be guaranteed for 2 distros
concurrently (ie at present 9.0 and 9.1). 8.2 has been unsupported for a
few weeks now, but I want to upgade servers running 8.2 to something
that will be supported for more than a year (and no, the clients can't
afford CS 2.1, but might manage a ProSuite). It doesn't seem that 9.2 is
supported yet ...

(Note, I can happily support my own machines, but I can't sell solutions
to clients and say that I am their only means of supporting their
machines if they have paid for a product - so this is more of a
complaint about business than about the packages themselves)

If the packages are in QA, that's fine (my ProSuite order hasn't shipped
yet I guess), but your answer implied there would not be updates (only
new packages in cooker).

Regards,
Buchan

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