On Tuesday 03 February 2004 16:55, Kurt Lieber wrote: > 1) Tarballs for main tree, rsync for security/bugfixes. > > Several folks have indicated that they feel quarterly updates are too > frequent. I personally feel that semi-annual or annual updates are too > infrequent and put us at risk of contracting Debian Stable-itis. > > One alternative I thought of (inspired by a suggestion from Spider) was to > create and distribute each quarterly release as a tbz2 and then have a > single rsync tree that only contains security updates and bugfixes. These > off-cycle changes would, as Spider suggested, be made available via an > overlay to avoid corrupting the original tree. > > The main disadvantages I can see with this are: > > * Requires portage support to work. (or users will have to do a lot > of manual syncing) The original GLEP requires no changes to portage. > * Could cause problems if some of the security updates have newer deps that > are otherwise not included in the stable tree. I don't understand this comment. The developers would still work against a cvs tree that contains all the latest stable stuff (base + changes) so why would there be a problem with deps that wasn't in the orig GLEP?
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