Ruediger Meier wrote: > On Tuesday 31 January 2017, Ruediger Meier wrote: >> On Monday 30 January 2017, Greg Freemyer wrote: >> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:28 AM, reinhard hennig >> > >> > <reinhard.hen...@freenet.de> wrote: >> > > my administration providing 12.000 Linux clients would appreciate >> > > continueing evergreen with Leap42.2, because it is planned >> > > to switch to leap 42.2 (13.2 at the moment) in a couple of >> > > months. >> > > >> > > That would be great. >> > >> > I don't know if it is working out, but the fundamental concept of >> > Leap is that the 42.x series is easy to upgrade between. In >> > theory, 42.2 is 42.1 with a major service pack. >> > >> > Major changes will be held back until 43.x. >> >> That's the theory. In practice seems that any packager/maintainer >> changes their packages however they want. >> >> For example one of my packages (sbcl) was even not building anymore >> for 42,2 although it was fine for 42.1. I've asked to revert the >> other incompatible change which broke my package but no chance ... >> I've had to change my package too otherwise they would have even >> removed my package from 42.2! Even this was a known issue, avoiding >> or reverting incompatible changes is obviously not important for >> Leap. > > ... and it happened again. They upgraded 42.3 to texlive-2016 and it > breaks again. Evergreen is still needed.
Upgrading 42.1 the other day broke a customer system for me. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (7.2°C) http://www.cloudsuisse.com/ - your owncloud, hosted in Switzerland. _______________________________________________ Evergreen mailing list Evergreen@lists.rosenauer.org http://lists.rosenauer.org/mailman/listinfo/evergreen
