2009/11/1 Robert Collins <[email protected]>: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS > > To get the LTS updated a 'stable release update' is needed - SRU: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates. When an individual fix is > backported its called an SRU - see below for 'backports', which is a > whole other thing.
Thanks for the terminology lesson. "Ubuntu SRU" seems to be pretty equivalent to "Backport" in the RHEL/CentOS world. I.E. get the same version as before but with the bug fixed. > >> > - backports are available if you want newer packages on a per package >> > basis. >> >> "Backporting", in the definitions I'm familiar with (e.g. RHEL), is to >> fix an OLDER version which is current in a supported release, not an >> upgrade to a later version of the software. > > In Debian/Ubuntu 'backports' (NOT BackportING) is a collection of newer > packages built as much as possible against an older release. > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports I know about debian backports, used to use them back when Debian was my OS of choice. They were officially unsupported and at first even not hosted on Debian servers. That's not what I mean by "backporting" in the RHEL/CentOS sense. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
