On Tuesday 31 January 2017, Ruediger Meier wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2017, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:28 AM, reinhard hennig > > > > <reinhard.hen...@freenet.de> wrote: > > > my administration providing 12.000 Linux clients would appreciate > > > continueing evergreen with Leap42.2, because it is planned > > > to switch to leap 42.2 (13.2 at the moment) in a couple of > > > months. > > > > > > That would be great. > > > > I don't know if it is working out, but the fundamental concept of > > Leap is that the 42.x series is easy to upgrade between. In > > theory, 42.2 is 42.1 with a major service pack. > > > > Major changes will be held back until 43.x. > > That's the theory. In practice seems that any packager/maintainer > changes their packages however they want. > > For example one of my packages (sbcl) was even not building anymore > for 42,2 although it was fine for 42.1. I've asked to revert the > other incompatible change which broke my package but no chance ... > I've had to change my package too otherwise they would have even > removed my package from 42.2! Even this was a known issue, avoiding > or reverting incompatible changes is obviously not important for > Leap.
... and it happened again. They upgraded 42.3 to texlive-2016 and it breaks again. Evergreen is still needed. cu, Rudi _______________________________________________ Evergreen mailing list Evergreen@lists.rosenauer.org http://lists.rosenauer.org/mailman/listinfo/evergreen
