Richard Neill wrote: > > Vincent Panel wrote: > >>On Tuesday 27 December 2005 19:02, Richard Neill wrote: >> >> >>>Sorry if I am misunderstanding here - but isn't official supposed to be >>>the stable, bugfixed version? >> >> >>Shortly said, official=frozen (updates = security patches, that's all), >>devel=stable (updates = security patches + bugfixes), cooker=devel (updates >>with latest packages without much QA). > > > Thank you for your explanation. I think I understand - but I am not > certain. > > Does this mean, in practice, that devel (=community) is the better one, > and should be the default branch to install? If community has bugfixes, > and official does not, then is there ever any point installing official? Commercial packages, and especially kernel drivers, are built against the official realease. And updates are only managed by security team, meaning they are more carefully controlled than in community branch.
It's mostly a question of taste. Personnaly, I use community everywhere, including on the computers of my colleagues, and official exceptionally for some important servers. > My understanding was that: > > 1)community was a short-lived branch > > 2)At the time of release of 2006 offical, all 3 branches > (community,official,cooker) are in sync. I'd rather say community and official are forked from cooker at that point. > 3)After the release, > cooker becomes unstable > community stops entirely > > 4)A month or so before the next release, community is re-activated. Wrong. Packagers can still upload package in community, whereas there is no exact consensus at what should be uploaded and what should be avoided exactly. For official branch, they have to ask security team, which will only accept security-related releases for main only. > Is there *any* documentation explaining what is going on? I'd be > grateful for a pointer! As usual, don't expect much documentation from mandrake. Mainly because they rather try to sell a products to their clients. A few documentation is available on the contributers wiki, such as the contributer howto, that explains to contributers what they can do: http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/ContributerHowto -- If enough data is collected, a board of inquiry can prove anything -- Murphy's Military Laws n°35 _______________________________________________ PLF-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/plf-discuss
