Jonathan Underwood wrote: > On 10/12/2007, Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:29:28AM -0800, Tom Eastep wrote: >>>> One other issue to decide; the kernel patches are cumulative -- should >>>> Shorewall patches also be cumulative so that distributions only have to >>>> apply the latest patch against the base release? >>>> >>> I don't have a preference one way or the other. >> Okay - I'll wait until Jonathan weighs in then to make a decision. > >>From my perspective it doesn't make a huge difference either way. It's > marginally less work to apply a singe cumulative patch. On the other > hand, a series of fine grained patches is easier to debug if there's a > problem. But hopefully there shouldn't be problems introduced with the > patches. A series of fine grained patches is probably also better from > an audit point of view... so a minor preference in that direction, but > no strong feeling.
I have no preference either way either; my build tools can do it either way. So Jonathan's slight preference for fine grained patches means we'll do it that way. Thanks, -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
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