I'm tempted to derail this, not because it is wrong, but because the versioning and change control model is far from obvious. I fear a mail discussion to resolve this will be rather painful, but lets take a shot at it first.
Before I even attempt that, I'd like to know the Linux model for this. Are these components contained in any of the major distros, and if so, what updates to these components do the distros make in their updates. To clarify, if this is in RedHat (I have no idea), what would they do between RHEL4u3 and RHEL4u4 and what would they do between RHEL4 and RHEL5 (now in late Beta). Or,... do the distros just ignore this and Linux users go straight to the source? If this is the case, I think we will have a lot of difficulty forcing this version control model into Solaris. - jek3
