Bill Sommerfeld p????e v ??t 13. 09. 2007 v 17:35 -0400: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 22:28 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > > What disadvantages do you see in treating patching as upgrading? > > > > Upgrading means testing and requalifying all my applications. > > Even if the change delivered by "upgrading" is exactly the same as the > change delivered by "patching" ? >
Yes. Because ISVs. Their view on it. > > At > > least under Solaris, patching never has. Under the current patching > > scheme, it's possible to get a fix for an individual bug; > > in practice, it's only possible to do this via an IDR or point patch, > and those are only rarely generated. Generally you get several bugfixes > together. > Nearly every patch is implemented as IDR (even more than one) before patch itself. > IMHO we're going to need to provide some sort of IDR-like mechanism for > support/sustaining and the design will need to allow for this. > I hope so :-) Best regards, Milan
