On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote: > The downside (I've found) of the SuSE philosophy on maintenance of the SLES series > is that they never (normally) release a new VERSION of a product to fix a problem. > They just retrofit patches to the > version supplied with the distro.
This is generally the case with Red Hat too. THe aim, I think, is to minimist changes so as to minimise the posibility of conflict with other components, startup scripts and so on. > > This has been a major headache for products like Samba, where the many bug fixes > come fairly frequently in version/release upgrades. The version of Samba that came > with SLES7 was 2.2.0a, which turned > out to be just about unusable, so we had to "roll our own" versions of 2.2.5 and up. Red Hat just released updates to Samba 2.0 for its older RHL platforms. I'm sure that, in their place, I'd not be rushing out 2.2.8 on those platforms either. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
