Le 2010-11-02 08:02, Tux99 a écrit :
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Frank Griffin wrote:
Tux99 wrote:
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Frank Griffin wrote:
Weak point:
Unless you are prepared to do full intensive QA on the updated
distro,
the quality of these updated ISOs can be significantly lower than the
quality of the original release ISO. Since it will look, for all
intents and purposes, like the release ISO, that level of quality
will
be what people expect of it.
Nonsense. The normal updates are not any more unstable than the
original
release, rather the contrary.
I suggest you review MDV's release procedures. Full releases and
security updates go through formal QA. Backports are often not even
tested by the person building the rpm.
Backports? Who is talking about backports?
We are talking about normal security and bug-fix updates here.
If one selects "all updates" in Rpmdrake, it includes backports, if such
repositorys are enabled.
And they get addressed through updates which themselves go through QA.
Exactly, that's why it make sense to release an updated iso with them
included.
Agreed, we are not talking about backports at all. This issue is about
giving out an ISO disk with all official updates (to that date) to
people who cannot have their slow telephone hookup tied up for the day
to download our Mageia product or to user who have no hookup to the
internet at all.
Surely, the official updates have been thoroughly tested just as the
original release? It not, then a warning should be put out to
users/members that the official updates do not have the same level of
QA as the original release.
Marc
Even bugfixes often have errors. Many times I've seen bugfixes of
bugfixes, and sometimes bugfixes of bugfixes of bugfixes. (If you read
the description.)
If we go for incremental rpms (very much smaller), the only advantage I
see is for those without Internet connexion.
In that case, they wouldn't likely be vulnerable to security problems.
So that leaves (other) bugfixes.
This is something that I think, for the time being at least, can be best
adressed on an individual or local community basis.
- André
